DOI Kapitel:
Chapter III Of the Three Leaders, and of Moral Earnestness in Art
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THE SPIRIT OF
the heroic artists who carried the work
to completion. All sculptors who suc-
ceed in their equestrian statues are
heroic; even if they are not heroes
when they begin such enterprises they
achieve heroism before they finish
them. And if that is true to-day, with
our more highly organized methods
both of the sculptor’s art and of the
bronze-founder’s science, what must it
have been in 1856, when Brown’s
Washington, our second equestrian
statue, first saw the light ? In later
life, Ward sometimes spoke in whim-
sical recollection of industrious ap-
prentice days that he, a luckier type
of Jonah, spent within the belly of
the horse cast in bronze by French
workmen assisting Brown.
Ward had in his nature and in his
art the great elements of the precur-
sor. He represents not only the pioneer
in American sculpture, but in no small
measure and sometimes in a singular
III
OF THREE LEADERS
THE SPIRIT OF
the heroic artists who carried the work
to completion. All sculptors who suc-
ceed in their equestrian statues are
heroic; even if they are not heroes
when they begin such enterprises they
achieve heroism before they finish
them. And if that is true to-day, with
our more highly organized methods
both of the sculptor’s art and of the
bronze-founder’s science, what must it
have been in 1856, when Brown’s
Washington, our second equestrian
statue, first saw the light ? In later
life, Ward sometimes spoke in whim-
sical recollection of industrious ap-
prentice days that he, a luckier type
of Jonah, spent within the belly of
the horse cast in bronze by French
workmen assisting Brown.
Ward had in his nature and in his
art the great elements of the precur-
sor. He represents not only the pioneer
in American sculpture, but in no small
measure and sometimes in a singular
III
OF THREE LEADERS