Lorado Taft Bibliography

Bach, Ira J. & Mary Lackritz Gray. A Guide to Chicago’s Public Sculpture.
Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Barnard, Harry. The Great Triumvirate of Patriots: The Inspiring Story Behind Lorado Taft’s Chicago Monument to George Washington, Robert Morris, and Haym Salamon. Chicago, Illinois: Follett Publishing, 1971.

Call, Keith. Oregon, Illinois. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.

Coon, Richard A. & Nancy C. Coon. Remembering a Favorite Son: The Story of Lorado Taft. Elmwood, Illinois: Elmwood Historical Society, 2003.

Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. New York, New York: Thomas Crowell Company, 1968.

Fliege, Stu. Tales and Trails of Illinois. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Garvey, Timothy J. Public Sculptor: Lorado Taft and the Beautification of Chicago. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Goode, James M. The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974.

Graf, John & Steve Skorpad. Chicago’s Monuments, Markers, and Memorials. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.

Gray, Mary Lackritz. Loop Sculpture Guide. Chicago, Illinois: Department of Cultural Affairs, 1990.

Lanctot, Barbara. A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery. Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Architecture Foundation, 1988.

Riedy, James L. Chicago Sculpture. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Sculptors. Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall & Company, 1990.

Scheinman, Muriel. A Guide to Art at the University of Illinois. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Stilson, Jan. Art and Beauty in the Heartland: The Story of the Eagle’s Nest Art Camp at Oregon, Illinois, 1898-1942. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006.

Taft, Ada Bartlett. Lorado Taft: Sculptor and Citizen. Greensboro, North Carolina: Mary Taft Smith, 1946.

Taft, Lorado. The History of American Sculpture. New York, New York: Arno Press, 1969.

Taft, Lorado. Modern Tendencies in Sculpture. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1921.

Volkmann, Carl. Lincoln in Sculpture. Springfield, Illinois: The Illinois State Historical Society, 2009.

Weller, Allen Stuart. Lorado in Paris: The Letters of Lorado Taft, 1880-1985. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Weller, Allen Stuart. “Lorado Taft, the Ferguson Fund, and the Advent of Modernism,” in The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Chicago, 1910-1940. Sue Ann Prince, ed. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1990.