Show Great Sculptor f I At Tabernacle Taft American sculptor will be b at the Tabernacle next neat l' l JU Jle ArC to speak pak on The Sculptor a comes come under r the aU auspices 1 Ie of the r slop Ion division University o qt Utah 1 to Mr 11 Taft needs little Introduction the tho reading public since his work h bas basI s been so often presented In tn periodical during durin the years ear that he has haa stood a a. a I among one on of American the moat meet sculptors U eminent a t J Il Ills If figures S' S best t known work Include Includes the ud bf Schuyler Colfax Col 0 fax at Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis- era lu Grant n at Fort gt Jr av th tip figures res on various military monuments throughout the country countr He lie has s mpa- mpa Bled busts of ot many eminent writers and educators of this country In l sculpture he has hM produced produce of f Despair and Knowledge Y h hare are well known and among other othO impressive im- im The Solitude oft the presle groups Soul which won a medal at Buffalo u Of and Is now at the art Chicago Other groups are TM Blind inspired by J k I drama of oC the same name the th the Co o Washington Wash Wasti asi Memorial Fountain o at ington D. D C. C the Fountain of f the Great Lakes Jakes at Chicago and this This hIs lat latest st and perhaps most stupendous n oUs conception the Fountain of TJ f. f on the Midway l Plaisance Chicago The story of ot Taft Taft's Tafts s 's early discovery of ot his Jils genius Is interesting be was was a boy of or 13 at Champaign foreign sculptor was called front from hl cago to mend the statues of at the tha newly acquired university collection which w l h had been broken In transit Young Taft watched him with growing Int him n tl rest r eat est and a desire to emulate him Throughout his school days and college life he constantly pursued pod cling in clay and thu thue laid the foundation foundation tion for tor the fame tame which came me to him after his studies In Paris farts he went In 1880 fl Mr 11 Taft has come to be r recognized zed as an authority on all matters mattera relating to works of or art as well as t to Is chosen profession After t the clos f of his student life nin In Paris became ci in 1886 Instructor in the art Institute of of Chicago which pO position he has has held ev ever r since In 1919 he l six months to members of ot the A. A ElF EilF at Beaune and Bellevue ue France His Ills book a History of or American j ture turp Is II considered a monumental work worle Another work six lectures on I Is Recent Tendencies In Sculpture I I ready read for the press |