New-York tribune., 1908-03-01
PRAISE SAINTGAUDENS
MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD
Tribute Paid to Great american as
We'll as Great Sculptor.


To Augustus Saint-oaudens. not merely the great
sculptor but the great American whose mind and
hand embodied IN his bronxes the ideals of the ma
tion. which, though his only by adoption. he cner-
ished above all others. simple. impressive trib-
paid yesterday afternoon The hundreds
of the artists friends and admirers who went 10
Mendels.ohn Hall for the memorial services heard
eulogies of his fine personality, his high ideals and
artistic standards, his heipfulness TO his brother
artists and his courageous leadership for the !
progress art but above all. stood out in the ex-
pressions speakers the one note Of his in {
tense for country and the splendid service
he had gladly assumed and achieved in broadening
and improving its artistic standards.
Spencer Trask. the president Of the National AFts
Club, which arranged the memorial services
presi ID. Besides the delegations from the FINE
Arts Federation. the National Academy Of Design
the National Sculpture Society. the National Soci-
ETY. of Mural Painters. the American Water Coiof
Society and the Municipal Art Society, there was
a distinguished gathering of Mr. Saint-Gaucehs
contemporaries. The memorial exercises neid' aS
It chanced, on the of the sixteth anniversary
Of Mr. Saint-Gaudens's BIRTH will be followed dur
ing the coming week by loan exhibition OF SOME
seventy-hve of the sculptor's works at the Nis'ro
politan Museum of Art
The services of saint-Gaudens to American art
and the great value of his work as lasthe
memorial OF the Civil War we're pointed out oy
Mayor Mcclellan, who made the cn1e1 auu'e9-
Thousands and thousands who read OF SAINT
Gaudenss death in August realized at once that
a great artist had passed away. but feW Hhe"
that the death meant the loss of great amer
lean. Recalling how he came here from Ireiduo "ieA
only months old and was in heart and spirit
an American when at eighteen he went TO PARIS
to enter the EcoIe des Beaux Arts, the Mayor
said:
AS to his art. saint-Gaudens was essentially
of the Renaissance. of that ever recurring
era of the enunciation CT the rights of the indi-
fa9 tndi1iduai liberty in action. in thought and in
art against the rgidity Of type, Of class and con-
While Rodn is the incarnation OF the spirit OF
large is the Acaderly's apotheoss sant-eiau-
denss ndiydualty was SO P1werrq is taa bt ne uhe
leaving Its worst severely alone. In his years o.
study IN Europe ne ACQUIRED p6ls rsrfecti51 slE of
technique that have seldom been equaeac tt
wholly his own. which always raises him above
while the poI:sh OF Saint-ssaudens's style is per
hdps best illustrated by his portraits IN loW FtItl
as sculptor viii chiefly rest, In theme and
spirit they are vitalized with Iefty Patr-lo[Sa1, -
words of the cause for which our fathers fought
and died.
He classed saint-Caudenss statue Of Lincoln AT
Chicago termed our ideal Of Lincoln expressed N
bronze and the statue OF Sherman at the entrance
10 Central Park with DonatelIos Ciattenelata al
Padua and verocchio's ColIeoni AT Venice as the
greatest OF the worlds equestrian statues IHV'
are said the Mayor "a monument 70 the greater
I
OF a nation. ethereaIized and idealSed. marching
triumphant to victory. that the Union might De
saved and that then forever there might oe peace
After defending the conscientious American effort
TO attain the art which is indigenous 20 the
| French race. Mayor Mcclellan said IT was Saint
C;auders's voice in the wilderness OF the epoch OF
/ soldiers and sailors monuments the jerry-hUilr
/ Queen Anne cottage and the government postoHlce
! and his influence that brought realization Of
artistic shortcomings. 'Safnt-CfaUdens taught US,
/ eFa baaI1 in art in
| luxury but necessity for happiness. and as he
| wrought beauteousIy he gave new JOY in Nv
/ ing Ignoring that which is ephemeraL and local.
/ Saint-Ciaudens seized that which is enduring and
! universal for the uplifting Of humanity.
/ The following stanza from the poem Under
the Stars: A Requiem for Augustus Saint-Cial-
dens' read by the author Richard Watson Glider;
o stars that sing as in erea,ions prime.
He ike the made could create
sng 3 & birth sae aes 9eaq'y sr nd fF n a55 ' Do they live
And shall forever in the % hearts rs 81 2f men men. again
To souls unborn light and JOY TO give
I VIII H Low the painter. recalled the sculptor's
| ardent patriotism and his love of America and Of
/ Manhattan Island. Never was there man franker
and more Outspoken in his estimate Of ne said.
and none more happy and enthusiastic in apprecia-
ton Of and helpful with suggestion 70 his fellows
! whether in MS csgn branch of art. in painting or
| I'm sculpture. With worldwide recognition as one
of the masters Of sculpture, Mr. santCiaudens- NJ
/ said might have lived abroad. bur. despite his
( love Of Paris. h his work in America Averse
/ y, giving pam. there more absolutely
/ ruthless when question of ART a. stake His
own .rsatiabIa desire for perfection of Expression
made him destroy countless of his works. but
every change dictated by his fast.ous conscience
/ made for better work. Modest and without
/ SUMPTION Of Importance. ne was a most valuable
J and most willing adviser TO all who sought him.
/ Charles Robinson Lamb of the NATIONAL Arts
Club paid brief tribute the sctjInror, i'm which
he noted the kindliness of the man anu the sense
/ of responsibility which felt in ali movements
/ pertaining 10 the advancement OF at. and the
/ cheerfulness with which he gave Of rIs time and
/ enthusiasm. despite his own busy life,
During the exercises the Christian kriens st-ing
/ quartet played selections that " -~e fav0rites OF
= the dead sculptor.
Among those present We're Frederic IrOwil-
shield Frederic Dislman. Daniel Chester French.
Herbert Adams, William J. Coorn1s > T. Nlcoll.
Sir Purdou Clarke. Karl Bitter, John J RoyIe,
Joseph Holland Hunt. Royal Cortissoz- John J.
Murphy and Frederick :. Lamb.