http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorado_Taft

Lorado Zadoc Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator. Taft was born in Elmwood, Illinois in 1860 and died in his home studio in Chicago in 1936.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorado_Taft#Sculptor.27s_body_of_work

Selected Commissions

• General Ulysses S. Grant Monument Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas 1889
• Black Hawk Statue Monument, Oregon, Illinois
• The Soldiers' Monument, Oregon, Illinois
• Fountain of Time, Chicago, Illinois
• Heald Square Monument, Chicago, Illinois
• Fountain of the Great Lakes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• The Solitude of the Soul, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Student Veteran Memorial, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 1895
• Two Groups, Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Columbus Fountain, Washington D.C.
• Graves Memorial, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois 1909
• Lawson Monument, the Crusader, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois 1931
• Thatcher Memorial Fountain, Denver, Colorado
• Defense of the Flag, Jackson, Michigan
• William A. Foote Memorial, Jackson, Michigan
• Lincoln the Lawyer, Urbana, Illinois
• Alma Mater, University of Illinois
• Chief Paduke Statue, Jefferson Street, Paducah, Kentucky
• Frances Elizabeth Willard (plaque), Indiana Statehouse, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1929[3]