Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-06
MODELS MAGNIFICENT
STATUE OF SENATOR
Los Angeles Sculptor
Executes Fine
Likeness
Local Lovers Of Art Are Astonished d
by Revelation Brought Out by
Failure of TiIden's
Efforts

With the rejection of Douglas Til
denis model of the statue of Senator
Stephen Mallory White, Los Angeles
artists are asking why the making of
this piece of art should go out of the
city. The local cult numbers among
it's members a young man who form
erly maue a clay model of Senator
White which they declare was a great
deal more satisfactory than the one
made by the northern sculptor.
The artist to whom they refer is
Frank F. Stone, a Los Angeles sculp-
tor known far and wide for his artis-
tic work and known Furthermore as
the creator of a magnificent statue of
the dead senator
When the committee first asked for
designs they requested only general
designs for base, PEDESTAL etc.; but
Mr.. Stone, who had been called in to
take a death mask of the senator and
who had evidently also studied close
ly the senator's mannerisms of pose
and. gesture went farther. He made
two clay models of the statesman,
photographs of which figured in his
general designs.
One model represented the senator as
he was beginning one of his speeches,
his left hand behind his back, the
right at his side, holding his manu-
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to his subject the left arm would be
brought around and he would stand
with his wrist on his hip. The manu-
script would be laid aside and the
right hand thrown forward to en-
phasize a point. 1t was in this pose
that the artist made his second model
Having taken the death mask, Mr..
Stone was thoroughly conversant with
the dead mans features, point on
set col n fn
have gone astray.
Tiden Model TopheaVy
Friends of Mr.. Stone say that al
though the committees demand was
only for general designs the contract
was awarded the northern sculptor on
these general drawings and not on a
clay model.
In an extended article in the Sep
tember Arena of 1905 b. o. Flower ex-
tolls Mr.. Stone as "Californias most
gifted sculptor" A picture of Mr..
stones second model of Senator White,
published at the same time, bears a
marvellous likeness to the statesman
and the pose is an easy, restful one, in
strong contrast to the vehement ges-
ture of the Tilden model, which, for
mer friends of the senator say, was
by no means a characteristic pose, be-
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pearance.
Born of idealism, with the soul of a
dreamer and an artist Frank Stone
lot has not always been cast in pleas
ant places. AS a boy in his native
city of London he early learned to
dread the grim specter of poverty. And
who knows but what her grim visage
has been portrayed in his later life
when the master hand had learned the
cunning that enables him to carve
from the inanimate rock the dreams
he once dreamed by the side of the
British Thames?
With the omnipresent fight against
the wolf, the lads school advantages
were somewhat limited, but what he
was able to get he employed to the
fullest. Hard, bitter, grinding toll did
her best to crush out of the sensitive
soul Of the lad the hoseate dreams and
visions that should afterward make
him famous.
Tide Of Fortune Turns
But one day the lane turned. A vel
known artist beheld the young mans
work (for he had now become OF age
and seeing in the rough chalk scrawl'
the hand of the sculptor, placed the
young man under the tuition OF Rich