Arizona republican., 1909-08-18
SAINT T-GAUDENS' EXHIBIT
 MARKS AMERICAN EPOCH
Remarkable Collection at Art Institute of Chicago.
(Rv Magda Frances West.l

l Chicago, Aug. 20.-That cameo cut ' ter of souls, Augustus Saint Gaudens. | is experiencing in full measure pOsth- ! umous hero worship from the several 1 thousands of visitors who daily throng
 the south range of galleries of the Art
 Institute of Chicago to view the eX-
 hibition of Saint-Gauden's works, an
 exhibit commemorative of the second | anniversary of his death.
 The collection totals 115 pieces of sculpture and numerous cameos, pho
 tographs and reproductions, each de- | tailed in its spirit of the uplife. with materialism discounted and the eth
 ically aesthetic high to the fore In Washington at the Corcoran gallery, | in Pittsburg at the Carnegie institute and in New York at the Metropolitan museum this exhibit has scored from
 a point of general attractivencss and opportunity afforded for a birdseye
 survey of the great Saint Gaudens masterpieces. Casts of the majority
 of his larger sculptures and cameos.
 medals, placques, reliefs and coins, in ] cluding those first struck for the new | issue of United States ceins-plaster, marble, bronze, onyx, gold, topaz and siVer-the complete and the crude
 voice of a perpetual tribute to the ge-
 nius of this American.
 Chicago and Saint Gaudens are not strangers. but happy friends. The standing Lincoln and the Fountain of .Storks in Lincoln park have won for ltneir creator admiration and allegian And the wonderful Logan Tn Grants
 park is soon to be neighbored by the
 seated Lincoln, as vet unveiled and
 which was barely back from the cast
 ing at the time of the masters death. The Puritan. the Bastien-Lepage and the Amor Caritas long homaged in the Art institute display new allure ments when side by side with germane statuary and castings Glenn Brown, architect. Washington, D. c, came west and at the expense of $3000 in stalled the exhibit. Green and white. the colors of hope and of purity. emblematic of that life immortal at which Saint Gaudens grasped in all his portrayals, background the exhibit, with just a touch of tan to clear up the bronzes There are snow white hangings and white draped chaHde- Hers and graduated pots of savOry cedar and glast green box mimic ! shrubbery clustering the sculptures |, and adorning the thick grass mating i It Is all very much Saint -Caudens , from the lobby where the heroic figure of Victorv- Pease, laurel l-crowned and . lvstic- eyed. the headpiece of the mon { ument to General William Tecumseh sherman greets you gloriously to the shadowy corner of the bronzes and re- |
 
 of his friends wink at you. The cari- | cature of James Wall Finn plays a | lone hand to the tray of joyous heads , of Saint -Gaudens himself. Stanford 1, White and Charles McKim. which | Saint -Gaudens worked out as a pun ! gent remembrance of the joyous days in the Thirty sixth street studio, in New York. where, in company with MT. Joseph Wells, Thomas w. Dewing and IT. H. Richardson, Bishop Phillips Brooks was often entertained. There. too. is a bronze plague, a low relief of Charles Pollen McKim. inscribed My Friend Charles McKim, Architect, Paris, August, '7S In souvenir of the jolly days passed with you and the illustrious Stanford White in the I south of France" The reIiefs of the \ great and the great germane are many II and indicative of the friendships and the high lights in the artists life. ! These strike note of the common place personal-- spiritually echoed in such compositions as the magnificent f marble head of Christ, the figure of Death in the memorial to Colonel Rob ert Gould Shaw and the figure on the Adams monument.
 Lining up in the list are the bronze bust of P. F. Saint Gaudens. the sculp- tors father: William Maxwell Evart, his first commissioned portrait bust. and placques of William Gedney Bunce. Miss Helen Maitland Armstrong; Da- vid Maitland Armstrong, George w. Maynard, William l.. Bickncll, pr. Walter Cary, Richard Watson Glider, wife and infant son; Maria NJ. Love. Francis D. Millet Mrs. Emilia Ward Chapin. Dr William Edward Johnston, John S. Dargent. pr. Henry Schiff. |, Jules Bastien Le Page. Mrs Charles Carroll Lee and Miss Lee. Miss Sarah Redwood Lee. Homer Schiff Saint Gaudens and Miss Gertrude Wander | bilt, now Mrs Harry Payne Whitney : when but7 years of age. Mrs. Whit ney's interest and devotion to the