However, Taft's wider vision of a Chicago school of sculpture, analogous to other philosophical Chicago schools such as the contemporaneous Chicago school of architecture style, had lost momentum after the 1913 dedication of his Fountain of the Great Lakes.
然而，塔夫特对芝加哥学院雕塑更宽广的发展设想，类似于其他哲学性的芝加哥学院的设想，如当时芝加哥建筑学院（英语：Chicago school (architecture)）风格的设想， 在1913年奉献了他的“五大湖喷泉”后，失去了动力。