Lorado Taft was born in Elmwood, Illinois in 1860 and died in Chcago in 1936. He designed this fountain in his nearby studio at 66th Street and Ingleside Avenue. Commissioned by the Ferguson Fund it was dedicated in 1922. The sculptor left his self portrait at the back. The fgiure in artists's smock head bowed hands clasped behind and followed by his Italian workman. A line by Austin Dobson had suggested the them, 'time goes you say? Ah no, alas, time stays. We go.' Taft later wrote 'The words brought before me a picture I saw the might crag-like figure of time, leaning upon his staff his chin upon his and and watching, the endless march of humanity.

 

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