Quiz 24 : Douglas Tilden Flashcards
When and where was Douglas Tilden born?
May 1, 1860 in Chico, California
When did he become deaf?
Age of 4 from a bout of scarlet fever.
What is he called??
The Michelangelo of the American West
He was the first Californian sculptor to do what?
To attain recognition and worldwide fame outside the US
He entered what school when he was 5?
California school of the Deaf
His father was a?
Doctor
When did he graduate from the California School for the Deaf and what did he do after that?
1880
Taught at the school for 8 years
When did Tilden begin working with clay?
After visiting the studio of his brother, a sculptor.
What did he do to grow as an artist?
Moved to Paris in 1888
When he arrived in Paris he met who?
His mentor, Paul Choppin, a famed sculptor who was also Deaf
His art was received with great praise at the salon he worked at in Paris. What was unique about his work>
Tilden’s artistic voice was uniquely capable– in his sculptures, one could feel the distinctive landscapes and the natural majesty of California
After 8 years in Paris he did what?
Returned to California. His work was exhibited along with work from Monet, Rembrandt, and Delacroix
In 1889 he helped organize, and was voted vice president of what
The International Congress of the Deaf at its first convention in Paris
He proposed a bill to fight the rising tide of what? Proclaiming what?
Rising tide of oralism
“Sign language is our language!”
Tilden helped organize this and drafted its constitution and bylaws
California Association of the Deaf
When he returned to California from Paris, James Duval Phelan became his patron. He was who?
James Duval Phelan was the wealthy mayor of San Francisco and later a US Senator
James Duval Phelan appointed him to what and commissioned him to do what
Appointed him to San Francisco’s beautification committee and commissioned him to create bronze statues to memorialize California
Some of his most favorite works are?
- At Market and Battery Streets, San Francisco
- At the University of California Berkeley (2 of them)
- At Golden Gate Park
- Market and Battery Streets: Mechanics
- University of California Berkeley: The Football players
and The Baseball player - Golden Gate Park: Father Junipero Serra
He has a little studio where? many famous people were regular visitors to it
Studio at the west end of Berkeley
He wrote what?
Controversial articles in the daily newspapers
Later in his life he became what?
an art professor at the University of California
When asked how he would communicate with his students, he said
“I do not plan to talk to them, I plan to make them work”
Tilden is remembered in the art world as what
a standard-bearer for the spirit of the American West
In the Deaf community he is remembered for what
His activism against the suppression of sign language for educating Deaf children
