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
Since the passing of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French has
been regarded by many as standing at the head of American sculpture. He
was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1850. After having one year at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he studied with Doctor Rimnier of
Boston, the first teacher of art anatomy in the United States. Later he
studied with Thomas Ball of Florence, Italy, and a short time in Paris.
He has been practically his own instructor. His work is of the noblest
type. It is anatomically correct, of a high intellectual order, perfect
technique and of fine imagery. His first important work was "The Minute
Man" of Concord, Massachusetts. Among his many works are "Death and the
Sculptor," "The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial," the head of "Emerson"
(which caused Emerson to say, "This is the head I shave"), "The Milmore
Memorial," "The Alma Mater of Columbia College," and finest of all, the
wonderful "Mourning Victory" in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord. His
memorials are of high spiritual import.
Sherry E. Fry
Sherry E. Fry was born in Iowa in 1879. He has been most fortunate in
having the best instruction, having studied at the Chicago Art
Institute, the Julian Academy and the Beaux Arts of Paris, a year in
Florence, and later with McMonnies, Barrias, Verlet and Lorado Taft. He
has traveled extensively, so has had the opportunity of seeing the best
that the world holds for the artist. He won the National Roman Prize in
1908 and held it for three years. He has been a careful student of the
Indians. His work at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is
distinctly graceful and decorative.
Albert Jaegers
Albert Jaegers, a man who has taught himself his art, having fine powers
of observation and much invention, was born at Elberfeld, Germany, in
1868. He has been an indefatigable worker, holding his art above all
else. Solving technical problems by himself, studying the world around
him with an intense love in all his undertakings, Albert Jaegers has
come to be a power among his fellows. He has exhibited at several
Expositions, has done considerable municipal work - the finest figure
probably being his "Baron Steuben," of Washington - and many fine
portraits. His "Uncle Joe Cannon" in the Fine Arts Palace, shows his
power as a portraitist. His work has brought him decorations from the
German Emperor.
Isidore Konti
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