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Chapter III Of the Three Leaders, and of Moral Earnestness in Art
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AMERICAN SCULPTURE
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way, the prophet. Witness the dog
with scalloped mane in his admirable
group of the Indian Hunter, a work
that much impressed the youthful
Saint-Gaudens, fresh from years of
study among European masters and
masterpieces. Here we have a fore-
taste of that delightful treatment of
animal form found in the bronzes of
the young men from the American
Academy in Rome. To be sure, Ward’s
dog does not seem to spring forward
full-armed in a beautifully convention-
alized linear panoply of bone and
muscle resurrected from some newly
revealed Klazomenian sarcophagus; he
is not quite so Cretanly curled as some
of the appealing animal figures of to-
day, but’t is enough, ’t will serve. And
the whole group, as seen happily
placed in Central Park, reveals the
naturalism in which Ward envelops
his own peculiar kind of classicism.
For a nobler instance of Ward’s for-
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD
61
way, the prophet. Witness the dog
with scalloped mane in his admirable
group of the Indian Hunter, a work
that much impressed the youthful
Saint-Gaudens, fresh from years of
study among European masters and
masterpieces. Here we have a fore-
taste of that delightful treatment of
animal form found in the bronzes of
the young men from the American
Academy in Rome. To be sure, Ward’s
dog does not seem to spring forward
full-armed in a beautifully convention-
alized linear panoply of bone and
muscle resurrected from some newly
revealed Klazomenian sarcophagus; he
is not quite so Cretanly curled as some
of the appealing animal figures of to-
day, but’t is enough, ’t will serve. And
the whole group, as seen happily
placed in Central Park, reveals the
naturalism in which Ward envelops
his own peculiar kind of classicism.
For a nobler instance of Ward’s for-
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD