International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

Mrs. Cadwalader Guild


LINCOLN BY MRS. CADWALADER GUILD

undismayed and at a loss. He might be scuffling
through the underbrush and fallen leaves of his
woods, recalled in the bas-relief that circles the
pedestal. The face, too, carries out the feeling.
There is a drowsiness in the half-shut eyes, as
though he would, without changing his pace, woo
the dreams where success is so much more easily
attained.
The position of the uptilted, flexed arms sets
the composition in a triangle placed upon the apex
of the acute angle. The beholder’s eyes are carried
down to the feet, of which the left is thrust forward
and is receiving the weight of the body as the right

heel leaves the ground. The disposition of the feet,
confirmed by the play of the muscles, as in the slight
loosening of the posterior right thigh and the well-
studied curving-in of the supple back, with the par-
tial elevation of the second of the forward toes,
gives the impression of locomotion without the
sacrifice of repose in a singulär successful fashion.
Mrs. Guild is careful in her anatomical study, but
works without a model; and her results strengthen
the suspicion that in poses involving a representa-
tion of movement, however slight, the appearance
of a stationary model is false in detail to the exact
appearance in motion. A careful touch in the bal-
ancing of this unusual composition deserves men-
tion, the contrasting of the curve down from the left
hip towarcl the centre line (rather unsatisfactorily
shown in the lighting of the photograph) by a curve
below in the opposite direction, formed by the
shadow of the indentation in the base and the bole
of the tree in the relief.
The statue, though the procedure is not habitual
with this sculptor, was first done on a small scale
and cast in bronze, of the peculiar alloy which she
has invented and patented. We had the satisfaction
of commending the beauty of the Statuette some
eight years ago in these cloumns. Those who are
familiär with it, or with the much-commendecl
bronze portrait bust of the late President McKinley,
for the capitol at Washington, will be glad of the
opportunity to see the completed marble. Mrs.
Guild is a New Engländer, but most of her work
has beeil done in England and Germany and is
better known there than here. One of her recent
portraits, which we reproduce on this page, is a
most characteristic and interesting head of Lincoln,
of whom she has before made an equally interesting
study, though quite different in feeling, from photo-
graphic portraits of another period of his life. The
charming study in veined marble and bronze,
shown on another page, is an ideal head of St.
Monica, the mother of St. Augustine.

CURRENT ART EVENTS
Mr. Herman Schaus has secured a
painting that aroused considerable dis-
cussion in the last Paris Salon, in
Lhermitte’s Christ Among the Poor. This is to be
seen at the Schaus Art Galleries, New York, and
promises to be among the most interesting of the
exhibits this season on Fifth Avenue, along which
the art galleries have now gathered. Mr. Schaus
has also on exhibition a striking example of Roybet,
a picture of a cavalier. A marine is shown by Jules

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