Adams, Adeline: The spirit of American sculpture (New York: Nat. Sculpture Soc., 1923)

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THE SPIRIT OF
perfect solution of an almost insolvable
problem in arrangement.
Among the greatest virile portraits
of our age are those of the “all
around” American sculptor, Charles
Grafly; for style and workmanship and
seizing of character any half-dozen of
his busts would proudly hold their own
if placed beside Rodin’s male portraits
in the Metropolitan Museum. Further-
more, they have the old-fashioned ad-
vantage of looking like the persons
they represent, an advantage not al-
ways attained in the Rodin portrayals.
Perhaps a fairer tribute to Mr. Grafly’s
power would be to say that his busts
need not fear comparison with the
Saint-Gaudens Sherman, that most
spirited portrait of a war-chief. One
of our memorable sculptured portraits
is Mrs. Burroughs’s bust of John La
Farge, modeled at about the period of
Mr. Lockwood’s painted portrait.
Both artists have attained truth. Mr.
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THE STATUE AND THE BUST