Julia Bracken Wendt
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Julia Bracken Wendt was a notable American sculptor, born on June 10, 1871, in Apple River, Illinois, the twelfth of thirteen children in an Irish Catholic family.
Wendt in 1933
Bracken Wendt in her studio in 1916
Lorado Taft
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Lorado Zadok Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator. A proponent of the American Renaissance movement, his work was concentrated in his home state of Illinois and elsewhere in the American
Julia Bracken Wendt
…domestic servant for a woman who recognized her talent and drive, and who paid to enroll her in the Art Institute of Chicago. There, she studied with Lorado Taft and, by 1887, she had advanced to become his studio and teaching assistant. In 1893, during the Columbian Exposition, she was one of several women…
Taft in 1934
Taft at work on Fountain of the Great Lakes in Lorado Taft Midway Studios in 1913
The Recording Angel, 1923
Part of the Fountain of Creation (1933, unfinished), at the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign