page_title: Lorado Taft
section_title: Selected commissions
hierarchical_section_title: Lorado Taft / Sculptor's body of work / Selected commissions
caption_attribution_description: English: Eternal Silence, (1909), Lorado Taft. Monument to early Chicago settler Dexter Graves in Graceland Cemetery.
context_page_description: Lorado Zadok Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator. His 1903 book, The History of American Sculpture, was the first survey of the subject and stood for decades as the standard reference. He has been credited with helping to advance the status of women as sculptors.
  Taft was the father of U.S. Representative Emily Taft Douglas, father-in-law to her husband, U.S. Senator Paul Douglas, and a distant relative of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
context_section_description: LaFayette Fountain, Lafayette, Indiana, 1887.
  Schuyler Colfax, University Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1887.
  Statue of George Washington, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1905–09. Created for the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition.
  Eternal Silence, Graves Memorial, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, 1909.
  Chief Paduke Statue, Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky, 1909.
  Black Hawk Statue Monument, aka Eternal Indian, Oregon, Illinois,  1911.
  The Solitude of the Soul, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1911–14.
  Columbus Fountain, in front of Union Station, Washington, D.C., 1912.
  Fountain of the Great Lakes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1913.
  Seated Woman With Children aka Music, Chicago, Illinois,  1915
  Thatcher Memorial Fountain, Denver, Colorado, 1918.
  Two Boys with Dolphins Fountain, Oregon, Illinois, ca. 1920.
  Fountain of Time, Chicago, Illinois, 1922.
  William A. Foote Memorial, Woodland Cemetery, Jackson, Michigan, 1923.
  Lincoln the Lawyer, Urbana, Illinois, 1927.
  Annie Louise Keller Memorial, White Hall, Illinois, 1929.
  Alma Mater, University of Illinois, 1929.
  Frances Elizabeth Willard (plaque), Indiana Statehouse, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1929.
  The Crusader, Lawson Monument, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, 1931.
  Two Groups: The Pioneers and The Patriots, Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1932.
  Ontario Sends Greetings to the Sea, eleventh issue of the Society of Medalists, 1935.
  Bas-relief of Lincoln – Douglas Debate, Quincy, October 13, 1858, Quincy, Illinois, 1936.
  Heald Square Monument (Robert Morris – George Washington – Haym Salomon), Chicago, Illinois, 1936–41. Completed by Leonard Crunelle, Nellie Walker and Fred Torrey following Taft's 1936 death.
caption: Eternal Silence (1909), Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "", "Image Make": "SONY", "Image Model": "DSC-P150", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2011:10:22 14:24:59", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 50, 53, 48, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0]", "Image ExifOffset": "296", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "866", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5960", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/100", "EXIF FNumber": "28/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2011:08:21 15:13:52", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2011:08:21 15:13:52", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "8", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Daylight", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "79/10", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "365", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "365", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "740", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Manual", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal"}