DOI chapter:
Capter II Our blithe Beginning Days
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AMERICAN SCULPTURE
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her fortunate debut in England, her
travels to America, and, best of all,
that body of clergymen deputed to pass
upon her moral status. One can but
wonder whether every last one of these
took the matter seriously, or whether
some one of them winked at some other
during the deliberations. The sculp-
tor made a modest number of copies
of his masterpiece. But other sculp-
tors reproduced their marble visions
by the baker’s dozen, by the score.
In fact, only yesterday a venerable
eye-witness of those times reported
that a certain American sculptor dis-
posed of no less than two hundred
marble copies of a life-sized ideal fig-
ure. Appalling iteration ! One asks
where all the marble came from, and
whither it all went. And that sculp-
tor apparently had no idea that in this
business of the two hundred copies he
was showing himself two hundred
times as much salesman as artist.
BEGINNING DAYS
4i
her fortunate debut in England, her
travels to America, and, best of all,
that body of clergymen deputed to pass
upon her moral status. One can but
wonder whether every last one of these
took the matter seriously, or whether
some one of them winked at some other
during the deliberations. The sculp-
tor made a modest number of copies
of his masterpiece. But other sculp-
tors reproduced their marble visions
by the baker’s dozen, by the score.
In fact, only yesterday a venerable
eye-witness of those times reported
that a certain American sculptor dis-
posed of no less than two hundred
marble copies of a life-sized ideal fig-
ure. Appalling iteration ! One asks
where all the marble came from, and
whither it all went. And that sculp-
tor apparently had no idea that in this
business of the two hundred copies he
was showing himself two hundred
times as much salesman as artist.
BEGINNING DAYS