French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-08-31
eRFAT SCULPTOR FINDS
A PERFECT WOMAN
Dan, Rartletts %JunOesque Model is
Mrs. Sam Dorset, Born in
North Carolina.

american womanhood for American
o,loporical figures in art appears to
the slogan of the artists of the
Oountry says the Greensboro Daily
Nows in a washington dispatch.
Thic statement is made in view of
.ho fact that has just come to light re-
Tesling the identity Of the model for
Tho .Junoesque figures in Paul Bart
,ett,s pediment for the house of repre-
spntatives wing IL the capitol building
&C a North Carolina farmers daughter
who is not a professional model.
Ms, Samuel Taylor Dorset, wife of
Sam DVsett. of Salisbury, now q prom
met real estate dealer here. is the
namo of the model. Because of her
majestic figure and perfect propor-
tions she has attracted the attention
of many artists and has posed for them
ii he preserved in marble or on can
yass, as the case may be, several
times.
Mrs. Dorset is the daughter of Cap
tain John Milton Thrash, of North Car
olina, and she was reared on a farm
nm the sides of Mount Mitchell. the
highest mountain on the American
continent east of the Rockies. -
The section of the country fir i'm
which Mrs. Dorset halls is called the
Sapphire Country" because many
gems Of this kind are found there and
the deep blue flash of the sapphire is
reflected in the clear blue eyes of the
Young woman whom artists have called
a living Brunhilde-a daughter Of the
gods"
Mrs. Dorset Is just an inch short of
six feet. She states that she has two
brothers who are more than six feet
six inches. Artists have said she is
perfectly pr. portioned. Her full fig
ure adorns the diplomas of award be-
slowed by the Panama-Paciic EXPOSE
ton as the majestic aTegorical figure
of Panama. This was made from a
pilot Igrph and engraved by the head
engraver of the bureau of engraving
and printing, here.
Mrs. Dorset lived in the Sapphire"
country most of her life-and she is
still we'll in her twenties. She grew
up On the farm. She knows how to
ride and shoot and has spent most of
her life in the open. A few years ago
she went to Florida for a winter visit
and at one of the big hotels was in
troduced to a foreign nobleman, an
artist, who was painting pictures in
this country. He was struck by her
beauty and her unusual figure and re-
euested her to pose for him. She COM
piled more as a lark than anything
else. The picture was a great sue
cess.
After her marriage, Mrs. Dorset met
the late Weyl, the landscape painter,
and Mr.. Weyl asked her to pose for
him. He was painting a picture of
her to prove his ability at figure paint
ing and p~ortraiture. He was engaged
On this picture when he died. Paul
Bartlett, the sculptor, met her through
another artist and asked her to pose
for the figures to be used on the house
of representatives pediment. She ap-
pears as the great figure in the center
of the pediment and as the woman
sitting at the spinning wheel in the
center of the left Of the pediment.
While these figures were being made
S. Y. Turner, the mural painter, met
Mrs. Dorset and at his request she
posed for a number Of figures in his
famous mural decorations for the state
capitol at Madison, Wisconsin.