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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 ). [1] [2] He sculpted many statues that are located today throughout San Francisco, Berkeley, and the San ...
Biography. At the age of five, Douglas Tilden became incurably deaf from a bout of scarlet fever. He graduated from the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind in Berkeley in 1879 and became a teacher there for the next eight years. The artist's interest in sculpture did not develop until his early twenties, but his immediate talent in ...
- May 1, 1860
- August 6, 1935
Tilden taught hearing students art in SF. He is an internationally recognized artist who encountered financial hardships with the loss of his patron and marital problems later in his life. Tilden had conflict with the National Association of the Deaf and formed a new organization of the Deaf, called the America Federalization of the Deaf (AFD ...
Artwork Description. 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. The rolled-up sleeve may symbolize the working man who holds up to the world the hope and promise of the future.
Douglas Tilden’s later years were marked by continued artistic production, though he faced increasing financial and health challenges. Despite these difficulties, he remained committed to his art, creating works that continued to inspire and impress. Tilden passed away on August 5, 1935, leaving behind a rich legacy that transcended the art ...
Augusta Stylianou Gallery. 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.
Douglas Tilden has always been one of my life heroes. I wrote this article 40 years ago. What I found out years later is that part of the reason that Tilden was destitute in his later years was that the California School for the Deaf (CSD) in Berkeley (where he had gone to school and originally taught art) refused to re-hire him.
