The Washington times., 1904-07-25
GRANT STATUE READY
IN ABOUT SIX YEARS
Sculptor Shrady Has Just Finished a
Model Of the Hero of
Appomattox.

Six years will be required by Henry
Mervin Shrady, the sculptor. for the
completion of the statue of General
Grant, to be erected in this city at a
cost of S25O.0OO.
Scores of models, horses and men,
and an army Of assistants viii be en-
ployed in the execution Of this great
monument, upon which the sculptor is
stalking a reputation already won.
Does Many Things at Once.
Like most great artists. Mr.. Shrady
finds that he does better work when he
divides his attention among different
Iabors. Although it is nearly two years
since he won in the Grant competition,
he has just completed a Grant model
which he will enlarge. This model is
one Of many which have been fashioned
by the sculptor since the competition in
an EFFORT to get a design which would
please him.
oddly enough. Mr.. Shrady is a son OF
DR.. George +. Shrady, who was a warm
personal friend OF General Grant and
the famous officer In his final illness.
Mr. Shrady, although he never took a
lesson in drawing, painting, or modelling
in his life. found an instant market tor
the four or five canvases he painted. and
then taking up modelling in the evenings
for amusement, because OF the Airhculty
Of mixing cOlOrs by artificial Eight, he
was encouraged by his friends to pursue
that seriously.
Shrady's Work.
He modelled several Russian bronzes.
notably "A Battery Going Into Ac-
tion." The Empty Saddle" "a Moose"
and "A Buffalo" The latter two Mr..
Shrady enlarged for the Buffalo Ex-
position. These We're reproduced a num-
Der Of times by the glue mold process,
and placed adVantageOusly at the e.
trance 10 the grounds.
He won the competition for the $50. 900
equestrian statue Of Washington, soon
10 be cast, to be erected in Brooklyn. and
later the great Grant monument. This
latter is the most ambitious work OF the
kind every attempted IN America. Re
Gently Mr.. Shrady won the award Tor
the statue Of William the Silent, the
Washington of Holland, to be erected
on Riverside Drive. by the Holland So
ciety OF New York. 1t Will cost between
$4,000 and $4,000.
Mr.. shrady is in his early thirties.
His studio is over the private stables If
his brother-in-law, Edwin Gould, in New
York. Shortly he expects 10 move into
his new studio on his country place near
Tarrytown, n. Y, where by a system
OF tracks he can run his models On
trucks into the open and have the ad-
vantage OF working out of doors. Before
modelling seriously Mr.. Shrady was a
manager IN the works Of the Continental
Match Company, in which Mr.. Gould
was Interested.
Sketched Animals.
On his way home late In the after
moons he was in the habit of stopping
before fanciers' windows and sketching
in a notebook the animals within. His
own riding horse also was a favoTte
study, and holidays usually found him
at the Bronx Geological Gardens sketch
ing principally butfalOes and moose. he
was a Columbia man, and after grad
uating also from the Columbia Law
School intended 10 follow law as a pro-
fession but his health broke down and
he took a position in the match fac
tory before even hanging out his shingle.
Five years ago he had no idea Of de-
voting himself to other than a legal
career, and today he is one OF the fore
most sculptors OF the United States,
with earnings amounting to SS50,ooo and
more.