The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-05
ART EXHIBIT AT
WOMAN s CLUB
FINE COLLECTION OF WORKS or
AMERICAN ScULPTORS AT
LIBRARY HALL.
INSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM
Given BY the Art Department OF the
cIub--Miss Effie Lansden Pre-
sided as Chairman.

A number of artlovers awaited
themselves Of the opportunity yester.
day to view the very comprehensive
Eexhibit Of copies OF American sculp.
TORS masterpieces at Library Hall,
which was given Under the auspices
Iof the art department Of the Womau's
Club.
Art exhibitions are only too rare
in Cairo consequently there is little
opportunity for those who appreciate
this expression OF life to enjoy the
best interpretations OF it and still
less to inculcate in the uninitiated the
spirit and understanding of this noble
art which holds the mirror up 10
nature. The opportunity yesterday
therefore. was che highly appreciated
and the one hundred and fifty pie
lures shown We're most instructiyely
/ demonstrated by Miss Effie Lansden
| chairman OF the art department. VINO
Tread lengthy paper taken from
dorado Taft's book, American Sculp.
Iture, the collection of pictures being
LOANED to the club from the Taft col
Lection In the Art Institute in Chicago
through the State Federation of Wo-
mans clubs.
Augustus st. Gaudens, America S
foremost sculptor is represented in
| several of his best works. Hsi statue Of
| Lincoln which Ii considered the finest
lportrait sculpture in America, his
Angel Of Love, chaste and beautiful
Disqualification asss several Others
gave mute evidence OF the genius
which gained for this late lamentel
sculptor his great laurels
| One of the most impressive of the
Saint Gaudens collection shown was
the Adams memorial which has been
called The Peace of God" and which
thrills the on-looker with ii wonderful
power. Mr.. Taft's book says regard.
ing this masterpiece:
1.-THE Peace OF God"
The Adams Memorial" by Saiut
lGaudens is in Rock Creek cemetery,
Washington, p. G., close TO the Sol
h,liers HOME, bnei d ffs NEST bealstf.
i'faI 'aba-s. best known works. is tiis
strange figure. part woman and part
Sibyln called variopslysg fGrief.
death" and sThe Peace of God" II
is Q memorial to Mrs. Adams. wo-
men NH, f,-cl mud .IiaJ tho ,noua-
Iment says-nothiug morea but rumor
has it that the death came after in
SANITY anF a 1selT-ihflicted starvation
brought on after a marriage made.
believing her lover was dead and
later finding that her family had de-
IceiTed her The loving and sorrowing
husband inspired the wonderful trb.
ute. and there she sits a question for
the ages to solve wrapped in the nf1s-
terry OF the Sphinx Bafflell and fasl
tinated, one fingers Before her fu' the
evergreen ehclcsurs, awed. into RIVER
ence.. One feefs no concern in tribes
wien fronting eternity.
Herman Mcneil, young sculptor
Is represented in a group which was
seen at the, Portland exposition AM
Fome indian statues of great power
entitledA The Sun-vow-. --.,-.-.
1, a peculiar CONCEPTION Is chat u
Egypt Awakening which gives q
TYPICAL Egyptian of the ancient
,iays. the upper part Of the figure be.
Ing stirred to life and vigoT while the
lower half OF the body represents tn
cold marble statue. The story il tells
is plain and the originality of the
sculptor's idea is one Of the strong
points of the collection. This statue
is the work Of Frank Edwin Elwell
aud was exhibited at the Paris salon
an 1886.
4 Carl Bitter's "Sfetdard Bearer" is a
notable work Of this sculptor who
Though an Austrian resides in Amer
hica. Bitter's WORK vas a prominent
feature Of the Pan-American expos
tion and the Verbs Fair at St Louis
The Army By MacMonnies is 2
virile. stupendcus thing which graph
.ieaily describes the horror Of tn
grim-visaged terror.
THE Hewer."
Cairotes viii be especially intcres.-
led in the fact that a copy OF -Th"
lIicwer.~ The Halliday memorial fou1.
tain which this city is proud 10 gcs-
sess Is given among the masterpiece.
( George Grey Barnard. lis sculptor.
being among the much praised ones oi
the collection.
/ Regarding The Hewer" Mr. Tait
says.
The New York studio saw The
Hever finished in marble In 1892
haTing occupied the ruipicr msuy