Stories of Old KentuckyPurcell, Martha C. Grassham, Mrs.
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Stories of Old Kentucky
Purcell, Martha C. Grassham, Mrs.
Kentucky -- History
John Grimes, who lived many years in this state, is noted for a
portrait, "The Country Lad," and "Suicide," a composition. Oliver Frazer
first saw the light in Fayette County. He studied under Jouett and
Thomas Sully, and later at Paris, Florence, Berlin, and Ludlow, where he
and P.R. Healy, fellow students, became fast friends.
Though he was born in Pennsylvania, so much of the work of Louis Morgan
was done in Kentucky that we class him with her artists. His "Simon
Kenton" was the most prominent picture at an exhibition in the Academy
of Fine Arts at Philadelphia.
As a boy, Samuel W. Price also exhibited artistic talent; among his
portraits being "Old King Solomon" and one of Chief Justice George
Robertson. Among his works in composition are "Caught Napping" and "Gone
Up." There are also W.C. Allen, Mrs. Eliza Brown, Aaron H. Corwine, Paul
Sawyier, Nevill Cain, and others who have done creditable work.
The poet-sculptor, Joel T. Hart, when only five years old modeled
figures of animals in clay, molded a button out of pewter, and carved in
wood. His first work of note was a bust from life of General Cassius M.
Clay; among other noted men of whom he made busts were General Andrew
Jackson, the Honorable John H. Crittenden, Robert Wickliffe, and the
Reverend Alexander Campbell. His statue of Henry Clay now stands on the
capitol grounds at Richmond. Louisville and New Orleans each ordered a
statue of Clay. After that came Hart's masterpiece, "Woman Triumphant,"
which stood for years at Lexington, Kentucky.
The Kentucky legislature appropriated twelve hundred dollars for
removing the remains of Joel T. Hart from Florence, Italy, and
reinterring them at Frankfort.
Although born in California, Mrs. Mary Anderson de Navarro, an artist in
another line, spent her girlhood in Louisville, so Kentuckians have ever
claimed her as "Our Mary." Her brilliant stage career is known to all.
KENTUCKY IN THE FIELD OF LETTERS
Kentucky, rich in themes for song and story, has attracted the attention
of some of the master minds of literature. Sir Walter Scott in "Marmion"
sings of
"Kentucky's wood-encumbered brake."
George Gordon (Lord Byron) in "Don Juan" names
"The General Boone, backwoodsman of Kentucky,"
while Alfred Tennyson tells of
"Kentucky's chambers of eternal gloom."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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