Evening star., 1923-12-09

" " the worlds most famous
sculptors. an artist who
has won twenty-nine of the last
thirty three national and interna-
uonal competitions; remarkable
man, who in training, temperament
and aggressive activities wholly vio-
lates the innate conceptions that the
laity conjures up when it attempts to
visualize the word sculptor"
w. Clark Noble now lives on upper
18th street, where he maintains the
most beautiful studio in the National
Capital. He is bred and trained
American sculptor, who has Demon
strated irrefutably that an earnest
and conscientious worker, gifted with
artistic talents, can acquire as great
mastery and skill in this land of his
nativity as he can by living abroad
for several years and studying under
the best teachers in Europe.
There is absolutely none of the
long hair and flowing tie about this
newest and greatest addition to
Washington's artist colony. Mr. No
BILE is a mans man. He can go into
the gymnasium with the best experts
of America and hold his own in a
bout either with the boxing gloves
pr with foilS. He can discuss the most
Intimate complexities of anatomy
with the worlds leading surgeons to
their mutual benefit There is not an
architect in the United States but
who is eager to receive suggestions
end advice from this prominent
American sculptor.
When it comes to a matter of wood
carving, working with clay, bronze or
marble, or painting in oil or water
Solors. Mr.. Noble does not have to
Aoff his hat to any man in all Gre
alton.
Tie is dynamic, overiowing with
energN. aorceful, answering III his
loyalty TO his convictions, athletic,
upright and honorable.
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T>HE measure of a man. according
to our national standards, is
gauged by his achievements. His
bronze relief memorial of Bishop Phil
liVs Brooks in the Church of the
Incarnation, New York city. is an
epochaI production. 1t is one of the
largest and most remarkable exam
pies of ecclesiastical portrait -sculp-
ture in this country. There are three
pieces in the Vatican at Rome by
AIr. Noble. One bas-relief shows his
holiness seated on the pontifcaI
chrome in his canonical robes. The
bronze is in two colors, in itself a
remarkable feature. The metal is
mounted on mahogany. with the
pope's coat of arms worked in sew
eral colors in leather placed in the
morocco setting.
The Noble busts of Henry w. Long
fellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne and
Henry Cabot Lodge are epics of the
aculptors art. Critics have said of
them that they were more than great
works of art-so accurate and true to
life that it seemed as though the
likenesses were possessed of the
human powers of mind and speech.
One of Mr.. Mobiles greatest pieces
of work is a. statue of Robert Burns,
simple in arrangement, forceful in
movement Of lines and form, graceful
and manly in pose, as well as
marvel in the execution Of textures.
The statue is lifelike picture of the
author of AUD Lang Syne." Its
value has been estimated at $4,000
20 $4,000.
A bas-relief. called For Humanity"
B. panel depicting the lives sacrificed
for the well being of posterity during
the world war, is another of Mr..
Mobiles masterpieces. A bronze Of an
cold Newport Salt" Is a striking Gre
alton. 1t represents one of the rap
idly disappearing types of old sea
captains. The figure is so realistic
fof ri t1-iyb IN
phere of the sea. 1t was a post
haste execution of genius, modelled
and completed in four hours. 1t sold
1atterly for $4,000.
Several studies of the American
negro that Mr.. Noble made are also
without equals in their accuracy to
type and faithful portrayal of facial
peculiarities and expressions. 1t took
the sculptor only two hours of work
apiece to complete these small busts
One day Mr.. Noble became inter-
ested in panther stretched out in it's
cage at the Zoo Park Thereafter
he modelled from memory fine rep
Sesentation of this wild beast
The Noble statue Of William Ellery
Charming at Newport is considered by
many critics to be the finest example
oI StdHulnS portrait ngure in
America His Soldiers and Sailors
monument at Newport is an ideal pro-
duction. while the Walters memorial.
City Hall, Newport; the statue of Gen.
Porter in Van Cortland Park, New
York city: portrait relief of Bishop
Potter; portrait of Edward Everett
Hale: statue of Monsignor Doane,
Newark. n. j.; portrait of Pope Leo
HllI, life size; bust of Pope Plus