Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) AMERICAN MASTERS OF SCULPTURE By the same author: AMERICAN MASTERS OF PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY AS A FINE ART [Illustration: THE SHERMAN MONUMENT By Augustus Saint-Gaudens] AMERICAN MASTERS OF SCULPTURE BEING BRIEF APPRECIATIONS OF SOME AMERICAN SCULPTORS AND OF SOME PHASES OF SCULPTURE IN AMERICA BY CHARLES H. CAFFIN Author of “American Masters of Painting” [Illustration] GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1913 Copyright, 1903, by Doubleday, Page & Company INTRODUCTION The year 1876, the date of the Centennial Exhibition, is a landmark in the progress of American sculpture as it is in that of American painting. Not to be fixed too definitely, and yet serving approximately as a starting-point of new conditions which have transformed what had been a sporadic and largely exotic product into a lusty, homogeneous and thoroughly acclimatised growth. I speak of the gradual improvement and spread of taste in the community; the steady trend of students to Paris and the habit of American sculptors to make their own country the scene and inspiration of their labours.