Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts: Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San FranciscoJames, Juliet Helena Lumbard
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Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts: Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco
James, Juliet Helena Lumbard
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.); Sculpture
Solon Borglum was born in 1868 at Ogden, Utah. The greater part of his
early life was spent on the plains of Nebraska, lassoing wild horses and
photographing at the same time every detail of this strange life upon
his brain. He spent a short time in California, where he began his life
as an artist. Realizing his limitations, he went to the Cincinnati Art
School, where he studied some time under Rebisso. It was while here that
he spent all of his spare time on the anatomy of the horse. The time
soon arrived for a sojourn in Paris. His "Little Horse in the Wind"
excited pronounced attention at the Salon that first year abroad and
honors were bestowed upon him as long as he remained in Paris. He has
given the Indian the greatest attention, and is one of the best
sculptors of the red man in the United States. He has but one group in
the Fine Arts Palace - "Washington."
Edith Woodman Burroughs
One of the chief women sculptors of the United States is Edith Woodman
Burroughs, born at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, in 1871. She was a pupil at
the New York Art Students' League under Augustus Saint-Gaudens, later
studying in Paris with Injalbert and Merson. In 1893 she was married to
Bryson Burroughs, a New York artist. She has made a specialty of
fountain sculpture. No one who has ever seen her Fountain of Youth at
the Panama-Pacific International Exposition can forget it. It will
always be a source of regret that the appropriation for the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition sculpture was reduced, thus
preventing the public from seeing the speaking, simple groups of
"Arabian Nights Entertainments." Mrs. Burroughs is represented at the
Metropolitan Museum of New York by "John La Farge," a remarkably
interesting portrait head, full of character. She has the power of
speaking her language in a few words - but just the right ones.
A. Stirling Calder
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