Zulime taffeta

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Zulime taffeta

Zulime Mauna Tetie Taft Garland (born March 4, 1870 in Elmwood , Illinois , † December 17, 1942 Los Angeles , California ) was an American painter and sculptor.

Life

Zulime Taft was the daughter of Don Carlos Taft and his wife Mary Lucy Foster. Her father was a professor of geology and zoology and taught at various high schools . Her brother was the sculptor Lorado Taft and she had two sisters. After her mother's death, she moved to live with her brother in Chicago . Together with her brother she traveled to Paris, where she studied painting and sculpture for five years.

Back in Chicago, she worked with her brother on works for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition . She was one of the artists who came to be known as the White Rabbits . She created the allegorical figure Learning for the Illinois Building and a Flying Victory .

In 1899, Zulime Taft married the writer and later Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland , who in 1922 published a continuation of his work A son of the Middle Border with A daughter of the Middle Border and received the Pulitzer Prize in the biography or category Autobiography was awarded.

Zulime Taft Garland had two daughters. She died on December 17, 1942.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabel Garland Lord: A Summer to Be: A Memoir by the Daughter of Hamlin Garland . U of Nebraska Press, 2010, ISBN 0-8032-3243-8 , pp. 36 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ John Joseph Flinn: Official Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition . Columbian Guide Company, 1893, p.  151
  3. ↑ Allen Stuart Weller: Lorado Taft: The Chicago Years . University of Illinois Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0252038556 , p. 78
  4. ↑ List of the award winners
  5. ↑ Garland, Zulime Taft (1870–1942) Jane Addams Digital Edition. In: ramapo.edu. digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu, accessed August 19, 2018 (American English).

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personal data
SURNAME Taffeta, Zulime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taft, Zulime Mauna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmwood , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1942
Place of death Los Angeles , California