Quiz 24 : Douglas Tilden

Question 1

When and where was Douglas Tilden born?

Answer 1

May 1, 1860 in Chico, California

Question 2

When did he become deaf?

Answer 2

Age of 4 from a bout of scarlet fever.

Question 3

What is he called??

Answer 3

The Michelangelo of the American West

Question 4

He was the first Californian sculptor to do what?

Answer 4

To attain recognition and worldwide fame outside the US

Question 5

He entered what school when he was 5?

Answer 5

California school of the Deaf

Question 6

His father was a?

Answer 6

Doctor

Question 7

When did he graduate from the California School for the Deaf and what did he do after that?

Answer 7

1880

Taught at the school for 8 years

Question 8

When did Tilden begin working with clay?

Answer 8

After visiting the studio of his brother, a sculptor.

Question 9

What did he do to grow as an artist?

Answer 9

Moved to Paris in 1888

Question 10

When he arrived in Paris he met who?

Answer 10

His mentor, Paul Choppin, a famed sculptor who was also Deaf

Question 11

His art was received with great praise at the salon he worked at in Paris. What was unique about his work>

Answer 11

Tilden’s artistic voice was uniquely capable– in his sculptures, one could feel the distinctive landscapes and the natural majesty of California

Question 12

After 8 years in Paris he did what?

Answer 12

Returned to California. His work was exhibited along with work from Monet, Rembrandt, and Delacroix

Question 13

In 1889 he helped organize, and was voted vice president of what

Answer 13

The International Congress of the Deaf at its first convention in Paris

Question 14

He proposed a bill to fight the rising tide of what? Proclaiming what?

Answer 14

Rising tide of oralism

“Sign language is our language!”

Question 15

Tilden helped organize this and drafted its constitution and bylaws

Answer 15

California Association of the Deaf

Question 16

When he returned to California from Paris, James Duval Phelan became his patron. He was who?

Answer 16

James Duval Phelan was the wealthy mayor of San Francisco and later a US Senator

Question 17

James Duval Phelan appointed him to what and commissioned him to do what

Answer 17

Appointed him to San Francisco’s beautification committee and commissioned him to create bronze statues to memorialize California

Question 18

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

Answer 18

• Market and Battery Streets: Mechanics
• University of California Berkeley: The Football players
  and The Baseball player
• Golden Gate Park: Father Junipero Serra

Question 19

He has a little studio where? many famous people were regular visitors to it

Answer 19

Studio at the west end of Berkeley

Question 20

He wrote what?

Answer 20

Controversial articles in the daily newspapers

Question 21

Later in his life he became what?

Answer 21

an art professor at the University of California

Question 22

When asked how he would communicate with his students, he said

Answer 22

“I do not plan to talk to them, I plan to make them work”

Question 23

Tilden is remembered in the art world as what

Answer 23

a standard-bearer for the spirit of the American West

Question 24

In the Deaf community he is remembered for what

Answer 24

His activism against the suppression of sign language for educating Deaf children

Question 25

What is one of this most famous sculptures and where is it

Answer 25

The Bear Hunt

The campus of the California School for the Deaf in Fremont

Question 26

When was he on welfare

Answer 26

1930

Question 27

When and how did he die

Answer 27

August 4, 1935 of heart failure. found dead in his studio