Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-09
WORKS OF SCU[PT0RS
Great Exhibition Now Being
Held in Baltimore.
DRILL HALL TRANSFORMED
Immense Floor Space Converted Into
italian Garden.
EFFECT IS MOST PLEASING
Features Which Are Attracting At
tention-New Doors for the Cap
itol Shown for First Time.
DRILL HALL TRANSFORMED
EFFECT IS MOST PLEASING

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that they were mistaken, that it was at
that time only sleeping. is plainly mani
tested by a great exhibition which opened
to the public last Saturday in the 9Th
Regiment Armory, Baltimore. This ex-
hbiton is held under the joint auspices
| OF the National Sculpture Society of New
York and the Municipal Art Society OF
| Baltimore, and is the largest OF it's kind
which has ever been assembled. 1t con-
sists of over five hundred works by Amer
| lean sculptors. much of which Is of very
recent date On account of the memorial
exhibition of Saint Gaudens' work which
| is being held in the Metropolitan Museum,
New York. he Is not represented save by
photographs. but on the list of American
sculptors there are very few other omis-
sions
| The arrangement of this exhibition.
moreover is as remarkable as its COM
position. The great drill hall in which
it is set forth affords nearly an acre and
third of floor space. and has been
converted into an Italian garden. Divided
into four large sections. 1t has been laid
out in garden plots of regular shape.
| filled in with branches of evergreen trees
| for grass. large bushes and Towering
plants. There are screens Of shruc berry.
winding paths and long vistas, witt. I'M
der the balconies. inches filled in with
backgrounds of green. This is the set
ting for the display
| Occupying the inches, bordering the gar
den plots and terminating the vistas, are
| the sculptures, large and small, each we'll
| placed and serving as a unit in the large
design. Very much credit must be given
to the committee of arrangement. for the
effect is charming as well as imposing.
and to- have demonstrated the possibility
of such a show is In itself q thing worth
| while But. then. every one has helped
| the sculptors. the architects. the munich
pal park commission, the florists. men,
bers of the Municipal Art Society and
members of the Colonial Dames--and
| united effort almost always insuresLsuc-
| cess. This is the first exhibition that the
| National Sculpture Society has ever held
| outside of New York, but in all probable
| ity it will not be the last.
The first impression one receives upon
entering this exhibition Is of pleasurable
| surprise. 1t is so differen mt from what one
anticipates. so picturesque. orderly and
| imposing Plaster casts of three great
equestrian statues tower above every
| thing else; then smaller monumental
works are observed, and lastly the multi
plicity of little bronzes and statuettes
| becomes noticeable.
$50 feet distant, Is Henry Mervin Shrady' s
equestrian statue of "Washington at VAL
ley Forge" the original Of which, in
bronze. is in Brooklyn: and fanking this
| on high pedestals are the recumbent lions
modelled by the same sculptor for the
memorial to Grant which is to be
erected in Washington. To the right and
left halfway between the center of the
hall and the east and west walls. are
Scion Borglum's equestrian statue Of
Cen Gordon. erected in the south, and
Karl Bftters equestrian statue Of Gen.
Sigel, erected in Brooklyn.
Taft's "The Blind"
the hall from east to west and from
north to south. and where these meet an
elliptical garden .bsd sfas been placed.
Herein. facing the entrance and center
ing the exhibition. dorado Taft's won
derful group - ''The Blind" has been
placed. This group is supposed to typify
Life-"Ye walk by faftR'-and 1T repre-
sents ten or twelve. men and women of
| various ages pressing forward, > and
| reaching out to the unseen. In. compost
| ton It is compact and sculptural, in ex-
| preston beautiful and refined. and in sig
nif1cance profound. This is one of. the
/ things which seem most worth while .
! exalted and poignant.
TO the right of this group In the same
| garden plot is the late Edward Kemeys'
some time in the loan collection Of the
4 Corcoran Gallery. and to. the left is a
| work by Frederick Roth, called "rhe
1 Combat fight between an elephant and
| rhinoceros
/ Twenty-one of Mr.. kemeys' works ere
included in the catalogue of this exhibit
| tiOn-the group Of casts recently shown
at the Pennsylvania Academy, the sketch
Institute Of Chicago. and the Panther
and Cubs already mentioned. The plas-
| tic casts have been placed in group by
| themselves in the southeast section Of the
hall. and collectively make a most dis
tinguished appearance
Animal Sculpture.
There are a good many pieces of animal
| sculpture-more than one would suppose.
Frederick G. r. Roth contributes quite a
group. Eli Harvey sends six or more.
among which may be mentioned very
nice little Drinking Bear With Bottle;
Anna " Hyatt has to her credit two mon
keys and ar excellent large jaguar: Hen
ry NJ. Shrady Is represented by two buff
falo pieces and The Empty Saddle" !;
Richard G. Paine of Washington has sent
| Turtle" which has distinct merit. and
Charles r. knight sketch Of creeping
Tiger"
OF monumental sculpture other than
l equestrian StAtueS lneTe Is more IMAM a
little. Daniel c. French has sent his seat
ed portrait statue of the late George F.
Hoar. and a cast of his Indian from the
Parkman memorial, as we'll as his two
groups, Commerce" and Jurisprudence :"
| modelled for the federal building in Cleve-
land, Ohio. Charles H. Niehaus' statue
| of Mckinley is there, besides half-size
models of his statue of "Hahnemann," on
Scott circle. and Of Gen. Grant entered in
the memorable competition.
| (HutZOn ROrRlum Is fad hxy bfc
of his mares of Diomedes"; Richard E..
Brooks by his Carroll of Carrollton" in
the statuary hall of the Capitol John
Haynes. First Governor of Connecticut -
John Hanson. President of the CONT
mental Congress-" and a bust of Oliver
Wendell Holmes: Paul Bartlett by q cast
OF the head of his Michael Angelo" in
the Library Of Congress. two exquisitely
modelled torsos of women, historical re-
statue In Paris and Kenyon Cox by his
Greek Science" for the Brooklyn Insti-
tute a first adventure in the field of
sculpture.
The Capitol Doors.
In this exhibition for the first time the
doors modelled by Louis Amateis for the
United States Capitol are shown Very
beautiful they are. too; very thoughtful
and finely modelled. They represent the
"Apotheosis of America" and follow TO
an extent the laws laid down by Chi
berti.
| Not far from these is Albert ,Jaegers'
Isketch model for the statue of Baron
Won Steuben which is to be erected on
one of the upper corners of Lafayette