Sunday, August 1, 2010

from The Solitude of the Soul



I sketched at the Art Institute, in the afternoon, on my final day in Chicago. This was my first and I was nervous as I'd hardly drawn for a year. It's a detail of a sculpture called "The Solitude of the Soul", created by Lorado Taft in 1901.

About the sculpture, Taft said,
"The thought is the eternally present fact that however closely we may be thrown together by circumstances . . . we are unknown to each other."

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