International studio (54.1914/1915)

In the Galleries

MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN BY SHERRY E. FRY


N THE GALLERIES
Sherry Edmunston Fry, A.N.A., is at
work on a memorial fountain to be erected
by the wife of the late Major Clarence F.
Barrett, a veteran of the Civil War, and for
years a resident of Staten Island. It will be
placed at St. George when completed. The
work was won in competition and the subject is
Victory Compelling Peace. The material to be
used is Tennessee marble and the figure will be
seven and a half feet high. At the base of the
pedestal there are designs representing the depar-
ture and home-coming of troops from war. The
sculptor was born in Iowa, at Creston, in 1879,
studied at the Chicago Art Institute and subse-
quently in the Paris schools, finally working with
Frederick MacMonnies. He has had various
medals and earlier won a scholarship to Rome.
He is a member of the National Sculpture Society.
Arthur Crisp, well known as a painter both of
easel and mural pictures, sold recently to the
Government at Ottawa, for theCanadianNational
Gallery, one of his most interesting decorative




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