Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-27

he has futurep' Students flooked to |
his bedside; great ladies, reading of
ius who had starved" And all arrange
mentH were made to send him to a |
smart sanitariun.
The world was kind too late. Ed
strom was soured against 1t.
II told Won Rosen was sick Of peo--
would take some of the money and go
e Gle ''li'e ''' ASs' Des'''N '
He went as far north aa he could
get, living among the aborigtnes, flee
Ing even traders.
IT spent a delicious year and a half
with the good Laps" says Edstrom,
"and here Is detail Of their kindness.
| Don't go bac.. among those southern
wolves without gold in your hands,
the aged chief Of the Sika clan said to
me sagely. So they forced me to take
all the foxslsins had personally trap
ped, among them one silver-fox pelt
that sold for S75!"
Trapping in winter, fishing in sum-
mer sleeping in the bag, health had
come back to him.
1.-THE purity and sileneo Of the long
white winter night and the glory of
the aurora had brought me peace and
horror Of the struggle for existence
when one fights for an ideal. Courage to
struggle again came to me; must re-
create my character; must produce
works felt In mel"
Sells His First Sculpture.
He went back to the Royal Acad-
envy; and in six months sold his first
statute to millionaire amateur 1t
was Spring" young and delicate
girl, as oppressed by a bad dream in
her effort to awaken. 1t was the
l spirit of youth that was in his mind,
when we feel the glory of achievement
ahead, but have not yet our eyes open
to see the way by which we shall win
"Thus spring always seems to me,
Il says the philosopher poet sculptor,
J sad signing and full of longing for
the dull dawn Of complete manhood
and womanhood!"
He was soon making good money.
81 became known all IN a bunch" he
confesses. 81 got $1,000 for my Spring
] was able to travel. I went to SwitZ-
erland, drifted to Italy. Everywhere
: collectors bought my things as fast as
made them. My first large exhibition
was at the st. Louis fair, when took
away a silver medal"
He took away nothing else but
money; the whole collection was sold
At his next public at Munich, the same
thing happened-all the marbles and
bronzes, ten In number. were bought
IN a lump TOT uHe famous Inlel tTdllelS
, of Stockholm, one of the most eXclus-
! i've in Europe, with it's Robins, Meun-
iers and Vigelands. He sold his Cali
l ban" to the Gothenburg Museum and
: worked himself to another breakdown
! doing commissions for Ordinary mil
lionaireS.
Y Great Success in Rome.
q He spent sevent months in the West
;, Indies, sleeping out, sailing, adventur
. ing and writing poetry. returned t.
|, Italy-where his exhibition at the
Il Vieussuex committee rooms electrici
y fed the critics and launched him a
q once in high Roman society.
;. His Devils of Fear, Pride, Indolenc'
and Envy" belong to the Rlcardi col
lection Of Florence. His saucy Siren
. and statutes of Terror and Misery
e are the property of the Marquise Mon
e tagliari. THE Cliff"--a Titan over
powered by rocks. "a consciousness
II that strives to rise above the balanc
a of things and struggles still IN spite o
- hearing Thou shalt 20 no higher!' y
II is owned by the Marquis Ricardo Man
e ELI.
Il OF whom do these Roman patrician
speak SO respectfully? OF the crap
shooting American newsboy who re
=. fuses to own barroom adorned wit
, nudes and productive poker roor
: upstairs?
If No; it is Edstrom of the grea
world. I will not try to criticise hi
|e works. which Thomas Casson of Lon
is don holds equal to Robins own. / WI
Il quit him with a word from grea
4; Roman critic:
~ "Edstrom's art Is an art of philos
ophy and contains that precise ele
le ment which all have striven for, BIT
IN which, perha $, only Rodin has &C
g. complished in sculpture" says "a. c
the initials masking ins'ifficiently
orh 1ctr mr.
~ duces the invisible soul of things re
~ Elected in visible forms. His work cor
~ tains most of Michel Angeles goo
x qualities; and there is nothing abo,
I'll Rodin that Edstrom lacks all Is bl
a a question Of degree"
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