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
A foreign sculptor living in New York, Isidore Konti has steadily risen
in the excellence of his work until to-day he stands among the foremost
American sculptors. He was born at Vienna, in 1862. His father's capture
by the Viennese in the war against Hungary, where the father lived, and
his subsequent compulsory connection with the Viennese army made the
son, Isidore, long for the freedom of America. He came to America as a
boy, living in Chicago. He exhibited at the Chicago Exposition in 1893,
and later attracted much favorable comment at the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo. His works in the Fine Arts Palace are of a very
high order and are exquisitely modeled. The more sober life of the
individual, with appreciation of sentiment and longing, are evident in
his works.
Leo Lentelli
Leo Lentelli was born in Bologna, Italy, in 1879. He came to the United
States in 1903, where he has been permanently located in New York. His
most notable work is seen in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New
York, where he has done "The Savior with Sixteen Angels" for the
reredos. He has recently completed a group which has been placed over
the entrance to the new Branch Public Library of San Francisco. He is
still another of the sculptors who is self-taught.
Evelyn Beatrice Longman
Evelyn Beatrice Longman has risen constantly in her work since she took
her first step in art at the Chicago Art Institute. She was born in Ohio
of English parents, being one of six children. At fourteen she began to
earn her own living in Chicago, studying at night at the Chicago
Institute of Art. She saved her money, using it on her education at
Olivet College. She returned to Chicago and studied drawing and anatomy.
So clever was she that at the end of the first year she began to teach
those subjects at the Institute. Later, she went to New York where she
studied with Herman MacNeil and Daniel Chester French. She really made
her debut in sculpture at the St. Louis Exposition, where she showed
"Victory," a male figure which was so excellent in invention and
technique that it was given a place of honor on the top of Festival
Hall. In 1907 John Quincy Adams Ward offered a prize for the best
portrait bust. This competition was open to all American sculptors.
Charles Grafly won in the competition, but Miss Longman won the second
place with her "Aenigma." Besides some excellent portraits, she has done
two remarkable bronze gates at the entrance to the chapel of the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and much fine figure work. Daniel
Chester French says "She is the last word in ornament."
Herman A. MacNeil
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