About This Artwork

Lorado Taft
American, 1860-1936

The Solitude of the Soul, modeled in plaster 1901; sculpted in marble 1914

Marble
h. 231.1 cm; base 129.5 x 105.4 cm (91 in.; base 51 x 41 1/2 in.)
Signed: "Lorado Taft Sc 1914"
Friends of American Art Collection, 1914.739

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 285-287, no. 143.