Résumé

Principal, Lorado Taft, Sculptor, Chicago, IL. Taft utilized a brick barn at 6016 Ingleside Avenue as his studio. The site became the "Lorado Taft Midway Studios," a National Historic Landmark.

Teaching

Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1886-1929.

Instructor, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1906- .

Instructor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Professional Awards

Member, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 1909-1936.

College

B.A., Illinois Industrial University, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 1879.

M.A., llinois Industrial University, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 1880. The Illinois Industrial University was renamed the "University of Illinois" in 1885.

Coursework, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1880-1885.

Relocation

Lorado Z. Taft was born to Don Carlos Taft and Mary Lucy Foster on 04/29/1860 in Elmwood, IL.

Parents

His father was Don Carlos Taft.

Spouse

He wed Ada Bartlett.

Children

He and Ada had a daughter Emily Taft Douglas (born 04/10/1899 in Chicago, IL-d. 01/28/1994 in White Plains, NY). She attended the University of Chicago Laboratory School and subsequently, the University of Chicago, earning honors in French. After college, she studied in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, and worked subequently for two years. In 1931, she wed Paul H. Douglas (born 03/26/1892 in Salem, MA-d. 09/24/1976 in Chicago, IL), a University of Chicago economics professor and US Senator from IL between 1949 and 1967.

Biographical Notes

Taft designed the statue of George Washington erected for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909; it has remained on the University of Washington Campus since that time.

In some documents his middle name was spelled "Zadoc."

• Elmwood, IL (Architect's Birth)
  Elmwood, IL 61529

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• Chicago, IL (Architect's Death)
  Chicago, IL 60602

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