The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-28
SCULPTOR DIES SUDDENLY.
TURIN, LINE BUBEHI, TiS ENGAGED
on THE DEUET ARCH.

He Had overwork-d Himself in Order to
Complete the Portion OF the Work
Assigned to Him-Euincd Financially in
Carrying Out Venezuela Commission.
Another OF the group Of wcli-known scup-
tors who are at work on the decorations for tho
Dewey arch. has died sud !enly since the
inception of the work. Giovanni Turin wcs
stricken with apoplcxy ut $50 C'clocE ycster-
day morning in his home at Morninesids
avenue. and died within n few minutes. Turin
was one OF tho artists who had offered their
services to the Municipal Art Commits
sion for the erection OF the arch. and
for eight days he had becn ar work in Madison
Square Garden on a colossal figure. He was SO
ongrosscd in this on Friday that he forgo. to
tako any lunch, and he went home late at night
without having eaten anything during the
whole day. On Saturday he toied equally
hard. mud whom he reached homo he was tired
ont ana fovcrish HIS wife made him promise
to rest yesterday. He rose Yesterday morning
a. $50 o'clock. and going to his wi:os room no
fell across tho bed. gaspinG for breath. and died
before Mrs Turin could reach his side.
While his extraordinary efforts in connection
with his work on tho arch may have hastsned
death. it is asserted by the sculptor's family
that the heart disease to which il was duo
was the result Of worry over the failure Of the
Venezuelan Government to fulfil its oblixa-
tons to him. Some years ago, whilo Crespo
was still! President OF Venezuela. Turini Gecur-
ed commission Fl BIN that Government to
make colossal statue OF liberty and equas-
TRAN statues OF Marshal Score Gen. Pace,
and Gen. Bolivar. all in bronze. The Grst
three were TO be raised In the city OF Caracas.
Two Of Thorn have been eted and deliver
ed. The statue OF liberty is still in tho bronze
foundry. The model to the statue OF Bolivar,
which was to replace the present statue OF tho
great Venezuelan in Central Park. stands COM
pleted in the sculptor's studio on Station L..
land.
Turin exhausted his financial resources In
the com pction Of those works and oven wont so
far as to mortgage his house at IL West 18th
street. Then Cresro was ovcrthrown and Ven
eEucla was In the throcS OF another revolution.
Repeated appeals from the sculptor led to no
result and no had not received a cent for his
lahors up tt tho time OF his death. The mort
gage was forec'osed and he had to give up his
beautiful home. That was a blow from which
no never recovered.
Turini was born on May %. 1919. in Verona.
Italy. He studied sculpture at Milan and
Rome. but gaze up tho chscl for the sword
when the ilnai battle for ltaly's liberty was to be
fought. He tool; part in the war OF 1886 against
Austria serving as volunteer in Gar. baldi's
army. The war over. Turinl came to this
country. arriving in 1857. In 1882 he was
married. to an American girl. Miss Margaret
Thurston. who survives him, They had three
children. two Of whom are living. Among
Turini's most important works may be mon
toned u bust of Pope Leo XIII. which Is now
in tho Vatican; a group called Angelica and
Medoro:" the statue Of Garibaldi which stands
in Washington square, this city. and bust Of
Maz2ini.
Turni's sudden death. following SO closely
upon that Of Caspar Buberl. tho sculptor who
died last Tuesday after having completed a
statue OF Lawrence for the Dewey arch. has
caused profound regret among the artists en-
gagged in that work as well az among the ar
tlstic people OF the entire community.