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"SYMPATHY"

IROQUOIS THEATER MEMORIAL TABLET

 1910


LORADO TAFT

Originally Located at the

IROQOIS EMERGENCY HOSPITAL

Now Located at

CITY HALL

121 North LaSalle Street

West Lobby

Chicago

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THE MEMORIAL TABLET

DETAIL

DETAIL

The tablet is a Memorial to the more than 600 people who perished in the fire at the Iroquis Theater  on December 30, 1903.  The 1903 Chicago Tribune  describes the disaster.

 

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"PASTORAL" and "IDYL"

Cast in Plaster 1908.  Carved in Marble 1913

LORADO TAFT

GARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY

300 North Central Park

Chicago

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"PASTORAL"

"IDYL"

THE WHITE RABBIT

Lorado Taft was given responsibility for the design and execution of Sculptures at the Horticulture Building at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.  When, running behind schedule, Taft asked Daniel Burnham if he might use female assistants to speed the work, Burnham is rumored to have said that for all he cared Taft could use "white rabbits" if it meant he would be complete on time.  Taft's assistants continued to use the nickname long after the Fair: the sculptors included Edith Yandell, Carol Brooks MacNeil, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Janet Scudder and Julia Bracken. For more about Taft at Garfield Park link HERE.

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