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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

Views of a Croun
Formed i'm Mrs.
H.P. Whitney's
Studio

and try to invent your own. hecom;.
sorbed in medieval alchemy such az
bining INK with permanganate of potash !.
get surface the color of wood. YIN :. "
through painful experience that Ch.-
blue and orange yermillion do not n;v 's ,'
and you become acquainted with sou. :.
natures strange secrets in regard ~ :.
stone, lampblack, melted tallow c..%.p
white lead, shellac and turpentin.
Finally you give it up and tell tn. h,...
foundry to go ahead and put on their .~
patine.
And one fine spring morning your xt,+,.
comes back to you in pale green bronze M.
you are not there to receive it, for -"
have put the carpet down in your roo,n -,
joined an art school, where YOU vii, /.
hidden for many years, laboriously learn;,.
how to become a sculptor.
Now that l have dragged you throuyb ~.
imaginary experience, dear reader. can r.n
ever again stand unmoved before niec. =,
public statuary? Each one represents v.,,.
of devotion and labor; years of disapno;,,
Aiioiie Oil" h"GeAhe Sio1I ever renewed. for
the problems which surrounded your I'M.
statue are hundred times more profou,a
when applied to sculpture on a grand se,,.
I was in the studio Of Mr.. Daniel Cb.,.x
French when he was finishing the statn.,
which are to adorn the front NJ II.
Triumphal Arch at Madison Square, and IN
the accompanying sketch have endeavor.d
to give you some idea of the swinging
cranes, the machinery and masonry which
were necessary to the completion Of tho,.
vast figures.
Mr.. French is too consummate workman
to suffer from many of the accidents which
happen to most sculptors, but even he coud
remember one tragedy connected with hin
statue of Memory" upon which he worked
off and on, he says, for ten years. The
face had been giving him trouble and he had
at one time cut it off with wire and reset
it on to the figure. After weeks Of work
upon it, this section fell off one night and
was ruined.
"What did you do?" cried in great dis.
tress
"Oh," he replied, 81 did what usualb
do when accidents happen to my statues-l
step off and have look at them to see 4
thay aren't really improved that way"
viii it help you to realizs what BIZ
sculpture is to hear that Mr.. Frencht
Lincoln" was made in twenty pieces?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

Inc next morning shock awaits vou
Inc arms have given away in the nipht
from the weight of the clay mass above ::
inc tray and the grapes have descended
upon the nymph's head, crushing il and
the lovefy features which you had piven
IL into fiat, shapeless mass: one of
inc legs has sprung from its moorinpa
ana Is sticking out from the BODY in a
sort OF helpless, tortured way
The family now tell you very frankly
"hat they think, which Is that YOU have
no talent for sculpture and had better r;va
1t right up and go in for something clean.
But you have decided that the fault L.
not with you, but with the materials. yor
nave reasoned it out that if YOU cut stopo
none OF these things can happen to vou
its much more beautiful and dignifed
medium than clay, anyway. You decide to
DC stonecutter, and go at once to n stone
yard to buy some tools Here Won oro
plunged into u new set of experienco.
you are put In touch with vast firms who
zeal wholesale in celebrated cream, green
and white marbles" which they will sell to
you and ship at your own expense for $40
cubic foot, whatever that is, and thcy will
charge you 81 a foot extra for saving II
one way into any thickness
fou carry on fascinating correspond-
ence with New York firm who deal in
rough quarred blocks of pedrura Onvx
winch they will gladly ship to YOU ar anv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
Joys of
Creation

Inc hrst morning she has an easy time
or 1t, sitting In corner reading "Snappv
Stories" for you find that the armatura
which you had planned to throw together
while she waited does not seem to stay to-
gether, after being thrown, and a perusal OF
the book leads you to devote three hours of
COIL TO Its construction, after which time
the model demands her money and leaves
having oone nothing whatever to earn it.,
through no fault of hers, as she points
out.
Dut at last you are embarked and the
Joy or creation seizes you. AS you spread
the clay over the framework of wire and
lead tubing, and press and push it into
what you think is the shape of nvmnb
holding tray of grapes, a series of new
sensations pervade you.
You go to bed thrilled with sense Of
power, but when you get up in the MORNING
you ma that you forgot to wrap the CLAW
inquire up IN wet cloths and oilcloth. "a the
DOCK told you, and a terrible thing has
happened; all the clay has dried up in the
nlght' shrunk and crumbled and is hanging
from the armature in broken masses Yon
nave to begin all over again, the model
stopping to rest every ten minutes. which
delays you terribly.
The family are in state of bitter an+oo-
onlsm toward you and your artistic ideals
since they have discovered that the CLAW
you work with dries into a fine dust which
collects on the floor and which YOU track
all over the house every time YOU leave
your ROOM
But the nymph begins to look like
nymph, and the clay having hardened IN
derneath around the joints of YOUR badlv-
made armature, it no longer SWINGS in
space whenever you touch it, but res;s+s
With a fine frmness
Art schools, indeed" you say. "Pooh!"
On -the third day. after a prolonged con-
Met with the model, you get, with her
very slight assistance, the arms on. and I'm
into the air where they belong. To model
ana place upon them the luscious trav NJ
grapes Is but the work Of moment. and
the result is superb; the thing seems to
oulid up as if by magic, once it is we'll
started You spend passionate threa
hours modelling your nymph's face-sweet
-eager-upturned toward the rich ;u;cv
grapes. That night you wrap it I'm +eA-
derby.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

time, providing that 1914 per cent of the
cubical contents Of the car be in blocks
SIX feet or over in length, but after seeing
one of these six foot blocks you decide
that something smaller will have to do,
much as you long to make q life-size figure
right off the bat
After many weird days spent along the
stoneyards of the East River you find a
piece of French Caen stone the size of YOUR
figure and stonecutter who will come and
give you lessons. 1t is very expensive, but
it's worth it to be doing anything so won
derful.
The day when the four by-three piece Of
stone is hauled up the front stairs into
your room is a day the family will never
forget. 1t took three men two hours to do
it and the stair carpet was ruined.
AS they judged your modelling stand too
light to hold the weight, you had to have
another built and the stone hoisted on
to it.
The next day the stonecutter arrived with
a horrible looking instrument called a
pointing machine, and you learned that
you could not just begin to cut into the
stone, gayly, as you had planned, trusting
to inspiration as dear old Michael Angelo
did, but that to insure results you must
model the figure first in clay, and then have
it cast, and from this cast construct the
stone copy inch by inch by means of the
pointing machine. SO you have to make
the clay figure after all. Apparently there
are no short cuts to being sculptor. but
having undertaken it, you see it through
and finally get the clay figure to stay up
when put up, although your nights are rest
less Nightmares of apprehension that you
Will md 1t all fallen down again in the
morning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
An Unsuccessful
Fairy

The little fairy, with her hands flung up,
standing on tiptoe, which has been seen all
winter in store windows, has not been a sue
cess, In spite Of its charm. 1t is too
fragile. People will not buy it, and the
Wholesale house who put it on the market
told me last spring that they had lost money
on it from the beginning and would not
handle thing Of the same sort again.
During the war suppose forty sculptors
made statuettes of our soldiers, which they
hoped would find spot on every ones
mantelpiece. Can you think Of one which
has become familiar to any Of US? can
not. know that didn't buy one. and that
only the other day broke up with ham
mer thirty duplicates Of the one made N.Y.
SELF, because there was absolutely no sale
for them
In spite OF ali this there is beautiful
small sculpture being made in America.
which must and will sooner or later gain
the recognition it deserves. and one way to
bring this about Is to acquaint people with
some OF the details az to what sculpture
really Is and how it Is made
Material seems to be confusing element
to many people.
Guests in my studio, and very intelligent
ones, too, have asked me over and over
again as they watched me working on a
figure made of wet clay:
How long does 1t take It to turn white :"
and when explained to them the secrets of
the plaster east they were amazed.
~ . matter Of fact the mechanics of
sculpture are difficult.
There IL the eternal problem Of material.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
Misunderstood
Disciples

Yet America is full of sculptors giving
up their lives for this noble art, which all
accept, but none will take the trouble to
understand. Consequently, they have less
support, less incentive, than any other class
of artists, and as long as this is so we will
Fave, in spite of the young association for
better war sculpture, poor sculpture by
second-rate Italian artisans standing in the
sites where American sculpture should
stand. The people simply do not know the
difference, and In this, as in all things, thew
demand and get what is on the level of their
own intelligence.
One reason, perhaps, that the ignorance
concerning statuary is so widespread is be-
cause 1t is so hard to commercialize and so
cumbersome to get from place to place.
People don't want it in their homes because
it takes up room, has to be busted and, un-
less made of expensive material, usually
gets broken in the end, thus forming
cause for friction between the lady of the
house and the maid, and when a love of
form collldes with q love of food leave it
to you as to which wins in any we'll regu-
lated household.
Every year brings forth some picture
which the whole nation likes and buys
september Morn" or a centennial revival
OF breaking Home Ties"-every year
brings forth dozen or more songs that
every one sings and plays and that become,
as good art should, part Of the general life;
but every year does not bring forth a
statue that every one loves and wants to
have; not by long shot. America has
produced one national statuette-Rose
ONeill's Kewpie-which mas got it's fat
little self on the market Forever, apparent
ly, and is so good that think copy of it
should be in the Metropolitan Museum But
how rarely this happensl I cannot think of
another instance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

to hold anything representing a bunch of
grapes over her head
Il have weak heart" she says "I never
take poses with the arms raised. Indeed,
it's only as a favor that I took a standing
pose; most of the artists I work for PRE-
FER sitting poses I'm not accustomed to
standing, but thought I'd try it this once
just to accommodate you"
You agree it will be all right if she Just
raises her arms once in while, to give
you a general idea of the pose
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
InfriCaCieS of
Plaster

IN the meantime you have found ont
what 1t IS going to cost to have a plaster
cast made, and have decided that YOU will
save this expense by making it yourself
SO you begin collecting the material. and
become acquainted with the properties or
burlap, of gelatine, of turpentine, and tal-
~" ana baooltts soap, and copper sheeting
and whole world of things Won never
knew the uses of before. A barrel of plas
Ter OF paris and many pals appear in the
kitchen: the cook announces that she will,
leave II the plan of using the kitchen to
cast In IS carried out. So it is undertaken
IN the backyard, to the great edification of
the neighbours
FROM that casting, which fortunately Won
90 not undertake alone, you come ont q
changed and chastened being You have
learned how to mix plaster in pail. you
nave learned how it feels when il is poino
TO set-one of life's great mysteries. You
know how to stir great masses of boiling
gelatine the stove, and how tn now
them into a funnel without spillinp: Won
nave learned how to chip off plaster
mould without breaking the figure inside it
-- at least, you think you have althonob
vac" AioeiC I'LL VI the WTlSC which
nose or finger in the nick of time will
take you all your life to learn.
But the miracle has been nerforuoa
Your clay figure has been reborn ord
comes out Of the mould like chicken ont
OF its egg-white and hard. instead 10
gray and soft.
The profound experience of helping chin
tne plaster mould off has given you a new
and somewhat humber conception of what
~ means TO CHIP stone; after few lessons
IN stone cutting you decide that this time
you Will have your figure put into bronze
and that you will do your next figure IN
stone. So the piece of stone is beaved dow,
INTO the cellar, with terrific opposition from
the family at every step; but YOU nrom;so
yourself that 1t is only until YOU can
scrape together enough money to really
learn to cut stone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
Dangers of
Outdoors

One of the problems of statuary which
is to be placed out of doors is the lighting
for it is impossible to approximate in .
studio what grotesque accidents the chang.
ing light and shade of out of doors may
produce. Mr.. French, like many other
sculptors, avoids this by working ont Of
doors; in one instance he built statue
which needed elevation on the edge Of .
cliff near his country studio so that he
could go down into a ravine and look up
at it.
working out of DOORS" he said, "resulh
ip. ones making all details fewer and
larger"
In front of a group of chestnut trees ou:
side Robins studio he kept for long tint
his figure of "The Thinker"
"That bronze" he said, "is destined fol
America. Intentionally I expose it to the
intemperance of the air. l like to see the
effect this statue produces under the shin
ing of the sun or under the mystery o.
sombre weather. The work Of the atmos.
phere brings to sculpture precious col
laboration. Come into the neghboring
meadow. I have erected there q small
antique torso, one of the thousand copies
of the faun of Praxiteles See how the
daylight takes pleasure in caressing bis
curls and his shoulders
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
Alchemy of
Bronze

ana now you 60 to bronze foundry and
get gradually broken in to the cost Of bav-
ing your statue cast in bronze, and Won
learn incidentally that to cast a big monu.
ment such "a you see in our marks and
thoroughfares costs anywhere from "A noo
up; you also begin to understand IN. t,,n.
'"ool ana cost represented in the putting
"p u puonc statues in stone over life size.
me world of bronze fascinates you for
many months; you learn all about "patines"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27

statues are placed up the middle, with
passageway all around each one.
What did the people do? One and all
walked up to the first piece in sight, plant
ed themselves in front of it, stared and
passed on to the next, just as though they
had been looking at painting or poster.
Having no sense of form, they had not been
able to grasp the fact that what they were
looking at had three dimensions and three
thousand changing, melting outlines. That
thing could be interesting from the sides
and back as we'll as from the front was not
within their mental range, and the pleasure
of walking around these pieces of form and
enjoying them as bulk in space was COM
pletely beyond them-not to speak of the
subtler pleasure of watching the silhouette
in the very act of changing, melting, re-
shaping like living thing before ones eyes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
10 See That War
Memorials Are
Works Of
Art
B.. Winifred Duncan Ward

b. Winifred Duncan Ward
THE other evening group of young
men gathered in Mrs. Harry Payne
u ,yhitney's studio for the purpose
Of organizing a new society.
The young men were sculptors, and the
new society was for the purpose, as stated
in Its circular, of encouraging better after
thewar statuary. The young men are de-
termined, with all the enthusiasm of youth
backing their determination, that AmeriHa
shall not again be flooded with the sort Of
statues which were wished upon her after
the Civil War.
Let hope that this noble enterprise
will receive the support that it deserves
and let us do our share right now by paus-
ing to mediate for moment about statu-
ary in general and New York statuary in
particular.
The majority Of people seem to accept
public statuary IS they do tho sky and
lampposts, as part of. the general scheme
Of things and not to be argued about, one
way or the other. When / was myself a
sculptor / used to Turk behind sightseeing
groups when they paused to have our
monuments pointed out to them. l used to
long to hear what they thought about these
things, but apparently thought dies in the
average brain when confronted with piece
Of statuary, for what they invariably said
was:
Look, Mamie, George Washington; the
catalogue says it's George Washington
(pause). Well, come on, it's nearly lunch
time; or
Sadie, see the piece of statuary. What's
it about? Well, look in the catalogue.
What is it? Victory? Oh, look at the
horse. Amt that lifelike, though? What's
she carrying2 A palm? Oh Well, come
on"
And my yearning to know what she would
really have liked to have as q memorial to
the two sons she gave to her country always
went unanswered.
AS I said, people accept statues as they
accept the sky over their heads, and that
sky is less of yelled mystery to them than
the art Of sculpture
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-27
That Lost
Sense

why! What Is sculpture that it should
be so far removed from human life and
sympathy? Sculpture. is nothing but the
science of the shape of things-of form.
Every child that makes mud pies and builds
castles in the sand experiences sculpture.
yet this sense Of form is allowed to die in
them in nine cases out of every ten
They taught to understand sounds
and color and words and motion by means
OF the piano, and painting, and writing and
dancing-but form? No; in no school cur
riculum beyond XII ergarten is the art of
modelling laugh, and the great majority
of people live and die without ever experi-
encing the joys OF trained sense Of touch:
textures-light and shade upon round sur
faces, the power and e]oquence of bulk dis
placing space-are unknown to them The
elephant at the circus heaves through
space, and they have a strange sensation.
but they don't know why; the snow collects
upon the tops of stones in the middle of
rushing stream creating a sculptured shape
to be found nowhere else in life, but they
cross the stream hundred times and do
not see it,
used to watch the groups Of people at
the Metropolitan Museum when the Robin
Gallery of sculptures was first opened and
1t was the thing to go and see them.
The gallery is long and narrow and the
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-09-04
HANLON & OKES ONLY
BIDDERS FOR PAVING
Minneapolis Concern Will Probably Be
Awarded Contract for Eight Blocks
of MinOt Paving-WOrk
Starts Soon.


Hanlon & Okes were the only bid.
ders for eight blocks of Minot paving
bids for which were opened by the city
commission Tuesday morning. The
Minneapolis concern submitted sis
bids for various kinds Of paving anc
the board will not act on the bids unit
after Sept. Is.
The bids submitted are $398 pc,
square yard for Bithulithic; $50 FOL
concrete and $500 for brick. The bic
for Bithulithic paving is dollar high
er than was charged for similar work
previously done here.
The paving is to be done on South
Main street up the South hill and or
Fourth avenue N. w. and Second
street N. w. The work may be started
this fall but cannot be completed until
early next summer.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-09-04
FIRE DESTROYED BARN FOR
ED FISHER NEAR DEERINC

During the electric storm Thursday
the barn on the Ed Fisher farm near
Deering was struck by lightning. Mr..
Fisher was in South Dakota at the
time, but neighbors succeeded in saw
ing some things. Besides the barn,
he he lost all his harness, a big load Of
feed and one hog. The cattle and
were unhurt. There was some insur-
ance, but not enough to cover the loss.
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NEW RAILROAD TINE TABLE
Great Northern-E6ect1vo June Is, 1919
West Bound-Central Time

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St. Paul to Spokane.
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Sunday; St. Paul to Minot Local.
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horses, machinery, household goods,
etc. Mr.. Ruth has worked hard for
many years and has made a success,
but is willing to let younger shoulders
bear the burden for a period. He will
spend the winter visiting in Idaho, but
does not expect to leave North Dakota
for good.
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Camblin Grows Peanuts and Cotton

Camblin Grows Peanuts and Cotton.
c. D. Camblin of the Minot Auto
Co., who owns beautiful home on the
north side, has peanuts and cotton
growing in his garden. Mr.. Camblin,
who comes from the sunny south, has
had such remarkable success with his
peanuts and cotton this year that he
is planning on growing quite an acre
age of the products another year. One
never can tell what can be produced in
North Dakota until he tries.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-09-04

Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Glazer have re-
turned from Rochester, Mimi, where
Mrs. Glazer received treatment for
several weeks Fortunately she did
not have to undergo an operation and
she is recovering nicely.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Barron Return From
Outing.

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert E. Barron have
returned from Grand Rapids, Mimi,
where they spent several weeks.
Granw Rapids is located in one of the
most beautiful spots in Minnesota.
Fish are plentiful in the lakes and
there is an abundance of pine timber.
Deer may be seen frequently. The
trip was made by auto and their out
ing was most enjoyable.