DOI Kapitel:
Chapter III Of the Three Leaders, and of Moral Earnestness in Art
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.65493#0092
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THE SPIRIT OF
the influence of the Greek Slave and
her thousand daughters as it has
needed that of the Rock Creek figure,
of the Lincoln Memorial, and of the
fire-new work beautifully presented
by our youngest group of sculptors.
Those marble shapes now dwelling
vaguely somewhere in the dark corri-
dors of relegation had once a thrilling
part to play. They were our ideals,
to be seen, prized and possessed in the
name of art. So, the old songs of
blame have long been out of date.
But they did good service in the days
when John Quincy Adams Ward, a
natural leader of men, turned a heroic
back on Europe as a place for the
American artist to live in. Go there
to study, but not to stay, was his word.
Vision, veracity, virility are the three
V’s that stamped his life and work.
Like his friend Howells, he was Ohio-
born; both men had boyhood aspira-
tions that carried them away from
III
OF THREE LEADERS
THE SPIRIT OF
the influence of the Greek Slave and
her thousand daughters as it has
needed that of the Rock Creek figure,
of the Lincoln Memorial, and of the
fire-new work beautifully presented
by our youngest group of sculptors.
Those marble shapes now dwelling
vaguely somewhere in the dark corri-
dors of relegation had once a thrilling
part to play. They were our ideals,
to be seen, prized and possessed in the
name of art. So, the old songs of
blame have long been out of date.
But they did good service in the days
when John Quincy Adams Ward, a
natural leader of men, turned a heroic
back on Europe as a place for the
American artist to live in. Go there
to study, but not to stay, was his word.
Vision, veracity, virility are the three
V’s that stamped his life and work.
Like his friend Howells, he was Ohio-
born; both men had boyhood aspira-
tions that carried them away from
III
OF THREE LEADERS