American sculptor, born at Elmwood, IL, on the 29th of April 1860. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1879, and from 1880 to 1883 studied in the École des Beaux Arts, Paris. In 1886 he became instructor at the Art Institute, Chicago, lecturing there, at the Chicago University, and elsewhere in the United States. He is the author of an exhaustive and authoritative work, The History of American Sculpture (1903). Among his works, in addition to much portraiture, are the following: “Sleep of the Flowers” and “Awakening of the Flowers,” both made for the Columbian Exposition; “Despair” (1898); “Solitude of the Soul” (1900), and “Fountain of the Lakes” (1903). He was elected to the National Academy in 1911. He was director of the American Federation of Arts from 1914 to 1917 and in the latter year was appointed a member of the board of art advisers for the state of Illinois. He received a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. His recent works include the following: “Black Hawk” (1912, figure of an American Indian, at Oregon, IL); Thatcher Memorial Fountain (1918, at Denver, CO); and “The Fountain of Time” (1920, at Chicago). In 1921 he published Recent Tendencies in Sculpture.
