Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-03

At a h|aa4,@i given Thursday night
at Hotel Taiafow under the auspices
Of the ftrta. sails Commercial club t.
William Ot,!wa. Partridge, II o.
| America ) greatest s%culptors, citizens
of the city further advanced the move.
ment for lie erection of a memorla
/! to the late Senator Paris Glbson
Father. of Crest Falls"
It is proposed that at the head o.
Central avenue there shall be erected
by the community a heroic statue II
| bronze of the man who two scores o.
! years ago envisioned on the prairie
that iltted into an elbow of the Mis-
| souri, river at this point the present
| city of Great Falls; the man IN who's
faith and optimism the city had Its
| origin. and who saw here that through
| which a community might work out al
ideal of beauty and usefulness.
Nearly a year and a half ago tn
Commercial club named Harry =
| Mitchell, Charles NJ. Russell and b. J
Boorman as q committee TO deVelol
plans for a memorial to senator zip,
| son and at Thursday nights dinner II
was announced by Mitchell and Boor'
| man that the movement had been al
vanced to Il point that permitted tht
| visit here Of the sculptor tor the puf-
| pose of discussing details of Il statue
along definite lines.
Russell Honor Guest Too
Russell. recognized in the world o.
art as the greatest painter OF the NE
| of the old west, was. with Partridge
| an honor guest at the dinner. Part
| ridge referred to Russelfs achieve
| ments MS n PAINTER and commented up
| on the position he has come TO com
mand with artists.
Referring to his mission here, Part
| ridge said he had come over l,oot
miles to meet the people of Great
| Falls and to join in honoring the mar
who founded the city, His address
was devoted almost exclusively to the
| history of art. %imparting a persona
| touch bv telling of his identification
with art. He was born in Paris, ne
| said, and virtually is a product of tins
studios. n fact brought about by ms
fathers interest in art.
After beginning his study OF art ht
| entered Columbia university ana thel
went abroad to continue ms work ou'
he felt that he was pushing about
| pieces of clay without really know.
ing why he was doing it, lie sane
that he felt as if he needed q court Of
appeals to which he might go-he was
not willing To do a work that "ou1e
| take him apart from the WORK OF mah'
kind.
Has Travelled Much
This reasoning led to extensive
| travelling and in his quest OF lniorina,
ton he visited nearly every, part OF
| the civilized world. Through Egypt
| Persia. eastern Europe and the enters
| of the old world he studied the art o.
the ~ancients. For his audience IL
drew unon his personal observations
| for an account of ancient art TRACING
II through the ages to the present
| fine lie declared that his life hat
| been n delightful one: that he had CIV
en- all TO art, had kept joy always II
| the foreground. Egypt, he said. wa
| the cradle Of art, and there it was de
| welcomed with an idea to immortality
| Followed the Persian art, which let
| little of it's own conceptions TO poster
| ity and destroyed much of the Egyp'
tan art.
'srhe history of art is that II RAGS
| builds and another race destroys, n
said.
Continuing, be said that the jews
left no monuments that have lived ane
hat the great beauty in art has beer
dest~oved first BY the Persians ant
then bv the Turks. The Romans gave
| the COLISEUM to art and the new arr
| owes its impetus to the French,
'aThere has followed n new art. ne
said "This is the art Of the ctiblsts
| 1t creates within me a horror. 1t gets
on nv mind. A man must have cnar-
acter and vision, or he better not be.
A. portrait of Senator Gibson was
| hung Mt the south end of the palm
room and looking up to 1t once IN ths
| course of his address. Partridge said.
Records Are Recorded
1.-THE business of sculptor is to make
| a record of the nohlest men OF the!I
time. / am glad OF the opportunity of
! fered here to follow that ideal.
The sculptor said that he did not
| believe the statue of Lincoln has YET
been made. There still IS to be put
| into the face that which nc sculptor has
| been able TO do" He said it was some
| thing TO strive for, and achievement &c
which sculptors aspire. A sculptor ever
| works under the p~romptlngs OF a de
| sire to put into his work more of the
love man has for his fellow man, II
the right color and the right form.
One hundred and thirty-eight work.
, are listed in n cataiog of Partridge
art. but he referred only to n few OF
| them in his address. Several wears
| ago. while hanging to the strap IN 6
Roston street car. he glimpsed a girls
| face that impressed him greatly. He
was asked whom he had used for his
model for '"rhe Peace Head and he
| replied that it had been the face he