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
Herman A. MacNeil was born in 1886, at Chelsea, Massachusetts. After
graduating from the State Normal School of Massachusetts, he went to
Paris, where he studied under Chapu of the Julian Academy, and two years
under Falguiere of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He came home and soon
answered a call to Cornell, where he remained three years. Then three
years were spent in teaching art at the Chicago Art Institute. While
there, he taught Miss Carol Brooks of Chicago, whom he married in 1895.
She is a very clever sculptor herself. Her "Listening to the Fairies,"
"The First Wave," "The First Lesson," "Betty," in the Fine Arts Palace
of the Exposition, readily show how very charming her work is. Mr. and
Mrs. MacNeil studied together in Rome for four years and on their return
to America established themselves in New York, where the MacNeil studio
is. He is the teacher of modeling of the National School of Design, New
York. He has made a specialty of Indian subjects, "The Sun Vow," "The
Coming of the White Man," and the "Moqui Runner" being some of his best
pieces. To him the Indians are as fine as Greek warriors and most worthy
of careful study. Whatever he does in sculpture is in its very essence
national. He is extremely refined, a superb modeler and one whose every
piece of work is strong and of the first rank.
Paul Manship
Standing quite apart from the other sculptors in his special joyous line
of work is Paul Manship, a young man from St. Paul, Minnesota, born in
1885. He obtained the Prix de Rome from the American Academy, which
prize allowed him to study in Rome and Greece for three years, from 1909
to 1912. His study in Greece gave a most interesting, individual touch
to his work, for he united to his fresh, vigorous western style the
classic precision of the Greek. He has a certain archaistic mannerism in
his work recalling the Aeginetan marbles, which individuality puts a
Manship stamp upon his work, striking a distinctly personal note. His
statuettes are most charming and natural - little bursts of spirit and
intense feeling. His work is always interesting - the kind you cannot
pass by. He fills a niche all his own and is a most promising, gifted
young sculptor. His "Spring Awakening" and "Playfulness" in the
Twachtman Room of the Fine Arts Palace are delightfully exhilarating
little figures.
Charles Niehaus
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