Bonnassieux subsequently taught at the Ecole, and among his students in the 1880s was the young American Lorado Taft, and the British-American sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson.
His papers reside in collections at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the University of Illinois, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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From that arose a group of talented women sculptors known as "the White Rabbits": Enid Yandell, Carol Brooks MacNeil, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Janet Scudder, and Julia Bracken.
William Howard Taft | Charles Phelps Taft | Bob Taft | Taft High School | Taft, California | Lorado Taft | Ezra Taft Benson | Taft School | Taft Commission | Taft Avenue | Taft Museum of Art | Taft Bridge | Taft | Kevin Taft | Charles Phelps Taft II | Bill Taft | Taft–Katsura Agreement | Taft family | Standing Dish with ''Samson Crushing the Philistines with the Jawbone of an Ass'', ca. 1580. Now at the Taft Museum of Art | Robert F. Taft | Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School | John Taft | Henry Waters Taft | Helen Herron Taft | Emily Taft Douglas | '''Darshan Kang''' (third from right) attends a news conference with Kevin Taft | Charles Sabin Taft | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | ''Annunciation'', 1545. In the collection of the Taft Museum of Art |
The monument was designed by sculptor Lorado Taft in 1911 and Chicago architects Allen Bartlit Pond and Irving Kane Pond designed the structure that encompasses Taft's sculptures.
The Pond brothers were part of an active artists' scene in Chicago that included Lorado Taft, Bert Leston Taylor, Jane Addams, and Harriet Monroe.