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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Lily Tolpo, a Chicago native, has spent her life |
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| dedicated to creating extraordinary works of art; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Tolpo lives in a home-studio complex outside |
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| of Stockton and completed her professional art training from |
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| 1935 to 1939 as a scholarship student at the Chicago Academy of |
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| Fine Art; she made her professional debut in 1941 at a |
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| one-artist show sponsored by the Illinois Society of Fine Art |
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| at the Chicago Drake Hotel; and
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| WHEREAS, She has been referenced in Who's Who in American |
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| Art, Who's Who of American Women, Artists of Reknown, and the |
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| Dictionary of International Biography; she has published works |
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| including "The Turning Point", a biographical painting |
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| celebrating the centennial of the Blackhawk Wars of 1832, and |
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| "Freeport Doctrine", a biographical painting that was part of |
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| the Lincoln and Douglas in Debate Statue project; and
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| WHEREAS, Some her most noted works include "Law and |
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| Justice", a chandelier of corten steel located at the Waukegan |
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| courthouse; "I Am", a bas relief of cold cast bronze, the first |
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| of series of six for St. Paul Episcopal Church in Savanna; |
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| "Minuteman", a bronze figurine for the Minutemen of America in |
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| Peoria; "Lincoln & Douglas in Debate", a life sized bronze |
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| sculpture of figures in action located on the debate site in |
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| Freeport; and "Whoofle, the Magic Dragon", found in Ross Garden |
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| at Krape Park in Freeport; her most recent work is a sculpture |
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| of Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, to be located at |
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| the Grant home in Galena; and
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| WHEREAS, She married Carl Tolpo in 1941, and together they |
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| sculpted a statue on the east side of the Capitol grounds in |
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| Springfield; the 11-foot bronze statue is of Everett McKinley |
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| Dirksen and features an elephant, donkey, and oil can flanking |