Solitude of the Soul - Sculpture by Lorado Taft

In the 19th Century American Sculpture Gallery of the Art Institute of Chicago is a unique work of art that I always love to visit. A video of it that I made in one of my gallery excursions is posted above.

Here is the text about the work that the gallery provides:

Lorado Taft
(1860 – 1936)

The Solitude of the Soul
Modeled 1901; carved 1914
Marble

Friends of American Art Collecton
1914.739

The Neoclassicism of the sculptors Harriet Hosmer and Randolph Rogers was replaced in the second half of the 19th century by the more realistic naturalism of French-trained sculptors such as Lorado Taft. An instructor in modeling at the School of the Art Institute for 20 years, Taft created public monuments for Chicago that made the city a center for sculpture. The figures in this work are only partly freed from the marble, a technique that emphasisizes the mass and outline of the stone. Explaining The Solitude of the Soul, Taft wrote, "The thought is the eternally present fact that however closely we may be thrown together by circumstances...we are unkown to each other."

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