El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-17
DR. YANDELL'S NIECE
Mon Both Fame and Fortune As 4
SCULPTOR

Won Both Fame and Fortune As q
Sculptor
Harpers Bazaar of Aug. IL, which ha:
just reached the city, contains half
Miss Enid Yandell, the sculptor.
Mrs. Yandell is the niece of DR.. w
M. Yandell, of Ell Paso, and from
childhood the talent which has since
brought both fame and fortune to her
was apparent.
"She inherited her talents from her
father, said DR.. Yandell, yesterday to
a HERALD reporter. ''for he himself
was very much of an artist, and even
when we were little boys together in
Kentucky, he used to worry me to
death drawing caricatures and carving
wood. He was equally good at either
and the only reason that he never at
| tanned prominence as an artist was be-
| cause he never cultivated himself in
that direction. His daughter. how
ever, undoubtedly inherited her talent
from him.
Harper's Bazaar, which contains both
picture of Miss Yandell and her de
sign for the memorial, says:
Miss Enid Yandell, author of the
successful design in the recent compe-
tition for the Bajuotti Memorial Foun-
tain, to be erected at Providence,
Rhode Island, has sailed for Europe to
begin work upon it at once.
The contract. signed July %, calls
for the completion of the fountain in
ten months, but Miss Yandell hopes to
have duplicate cast ready by the
opening. next April, of the Paris exposi-
ton, which will mean that the bronze
and permanent one has been finished.
The sculptor goes to Paris to execute
he
says, she can get the work done best;
and, moreover, she expects to have the
invaluable criticism of the great
sculptor Rodin, whose pupil she was.
The artistic merit of Miss Yandell's
design is evident in the accompanying
illustration, even to the unframed eye.
The central group of figures represents |
artist differentiates, 1.-THE struggle for |
life, as has been stated in print almost
every time the design has been referred
to. That would mean the struggle for |
bare existence, for bread merely; but |
intend to indicate the real life strug-
gle. the attempt of the immortal soul |
within US to free itself from the |
earthly environment. 1t is the de-
velopment of character, the triumph of
intellectually and spirituality, that I
have striven to express"
The figures show life symbolized by
! woman the soul symbolized by an an
gel, and earthly tendencies typi6ed by
three male figures, the mantle of truth
alling from the angels shoulders form
ng the drapery of the group. The
igures, if standing, would be nine feet
high; in their pose in the group tn ey
will be eight feet, high, the height of
he fountain from base to tip being six.
cen feet. ID
1t will stand in the centre of the |
opposite the new passenger
tation, at Providence, of the New
York, New Haven, and Hartford rail-
7ay, and, rs its designer says, 1T |
aust be so fine that it's fame will make
ersons stop over train to have look
t it,
The architects are Messrs. Norris, r
Sntler, & Rodman, bright young men,
IL graduates of the Beaux-Arts, who
re as eagerly ambitious to make the :,
'ork distinctive and imperishable as |
the gifted sculptor,
Miss Yandell belongs to the old Ken
lcky family of that name, her father
aving been q widely known surgeon
the state. DIR. Yandell was special
distinguished in his professional
ork for his manual dexerity. and he L
as undoubtedly transmitted to his I
sughter this skill with his hands,
lough clever fingers are the least part
the latter's art. Miss Yandell is
le first woman member of the Nation
Sculpture Society of America.
An interesting fact in regard to the
yard Is the intense Interest taken in it
= the women of Providence. They
ere urgent in their plea to the COM
issiOners that Miss Yandell's design
ould be selected. The fountain is to
, a memorial to woman-Carrie
rown Bajnotti; and since, said these
rovidence women, the design submit
d by the only woman competing is
mitted to be the peer OF any other
fered, it is most suitable and appro-
late that it should receive the award.
strong, indeed, was the sentiment II
us created that while it did not in n,
ence the impartiality of the commits Ii
,ners in their judgment of Miss Yam
II IS work on it's merits, it made that -
dy of gentlemen extremely we'll
sased to render decision so earnest
desired. RI
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