The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-07-30
A MONAN'S GENIUS
WINS RECOGNITION
FOR A UTE{RNER
MISS BELLE KINNEY cHISELS
FAME FROM PUREST
MARBLE.
ATTRACTS NOTICE At NINE
Submits Model in Confederate Conn
petition That Attracts Universal
Attention-Will Probably Get The
Contract.

Miss Belle Kinney, who has been IN
Columbia since the award Of the con-
tract for the Carmack memorial, in
which contest she was a competitor,
returned Tuesday to her home at Nash
Vile Although the few who saw her
work and who are able 70 discrimi-
nate between sculpture and stone-cut-
ting are unanimous that her models
are works of art, the citizenship OF
Columbia as a whole do not realize
that Miss Kinney is really one of the
most eminent artists in America. At
the age of nine Miss Kinney made
bust OF her father and when this was
shown to critics they at once pro-
nounced her genius. From that
time on her life has been devoted to
her work She has spent five years
in a Chicago art school, the last IN
the capacity of an instructor. sac
has already made several statues of
importance, among the number being
the Jere Baxter monument in Nash
Vile. which has been extensively adj
mired by critics from all parts of the
world.
In the recent contest for the Car
mack monument Miss Kinney was
able to devote only seven days to her
model and the fact that with such
sharp competition she was awarded
second prize is testimony OF her
unusual merit. Blu what bids fair to
become the greatest triumph yet ac-
corded her is her model for the mon'
uments to be erected jointly by the
Daughters of the Confederacy and the
United Confederate Veterans in every
state formerly in the Contederacy'
When Miss Kinney returned from
Chicago this summer she learned or
the competition and although the con-
tract had been virtually awarded 70
an Italian sculptor of much note, MISS
kinney in four days made model
which in all probability will be SUBJ
! stituted for that of the Italian. When
she exhibited it to the committee at
the Memphis reunion, they were all
most unanimous that it was very SUI
perior to the model that had been
OF
release themselves from the partial
contract with the Italian in order that
they might let it to Miss Kinney.
The conception of the work is Won
derful. There are three figures. AT
the left hand is dying boy repre-
senting the suffering and sacrifice
which was undergone in the sixties.
On the other side is figure OF
Southern woman, who is laying palm
on the breast of the young soldier.
Between the two and with an arm en-
circled around each, Fame is just ar
irving. and is about to crown the mead
of the young woman. Although the
model is still in the rough the facial
expressions are clear and Gonderful.
When it is remembered that 1t has
only been in existence a few weeks,
1t is not dangerous 10 say that the
work has attracted more attention
than anything of its kind in the last
several years. Practically al OF the
Chicago papers, as well as several OF
the Washington, New York, Philadcl'
phia, Cincinnati and other big papers
have devoted several columns to a
cut of the model and a criticism OF
Miss Kinneys work which is always
spoken of in most hattering terms.
Miss Kinney will also compete for
the Carmack monument to be erected
in Nashville and believes that by the
time that contract is awarded she VIII
have improved her model much since
il was shown here.