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Tilden saw art and sign language as being very connected via their visual nature. “I see pictures mentally and think in gestures.” As a sculptor, he was called “the Michelangelo of the West.” He was the first sculptor to focus on CA themes: pioneers, Indians, Spanish-American war volunteers.
Works by this artist (59756 items) Activity/Lab. Museum in My Pocket: An Off-the-Wall Art Game. What if art jumped off the museum walls and into a pocket-sized collection? The art adventure begins with “Museum in My Pocket” and it’s never the same twice!
- May 1, 1860
- August 6, 1935
Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1860 – August 5, 1935) was an American sculptor. He was deaf from a bout of scarlet fever at the age of four and attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, California (now in Fremont, California).
Pictures of Tilden at this age show a proud man adorned in a goatee, cocked hat and waistcoat. Tilden's very first submission to the Salon, The Baseball Player, was accepted in 1888, the year of the international exposition to commemorate the centenary of the revolution.
Douglas Tilden exhibited The Young Acrobat at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The work shows a chubby, nude baby poised unsteadily in the palm of a man's outstretched arm.
Explore the inspiring life of Douglas Tilden, a deaf sculptor who left an indelible mark on the art world with his extraordinary talent and resilience.
Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1861 to August 5, 1935) was a world-famous deaf sculptor who went to the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, California (now in Fremont, California). Tilden became deaf after a severe bout of scarlet fever.
