Studio: international art (55.1912)

Daniel Chester French

“EUROPE:” (NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE) BY DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH

figure of the young girl,
advancing in the path of
study and guided by an
older woman, the alma
mater of her college, who
points to her the way. This
work, as well as the Mourn-
ing Victory, are in marble ;
the figure of Oglethorpe in
bronze with a marble pedi-
ment ; and bronze, too, is
the Field statue, a figure of
Memory reposing on a seat
of deep red granite, re-
sembling porphyry.

Mr. French tells me that
he is now working, in col-
laboration with Mr. Packer,
upon an equestrian statue
of General William F.
Draper, to be erected at
Milford, Mass.; and upon
a statue of Emerson for
the Public Library at
Concord.

“You^will infer from

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their lives in the Civil War, by
their surviving brother, who
was himself a soldier in the
war.

Nowhere, we feel here, does
modern sculpture stand upon
higher ground than in the
monuments of Death; and
when I recently had occasion
to write “of the great modern
sculptor of Death, Leonardo
Bistolfi, as great in this, his
own field of art, as Daniel
Chester French in America,’
it was this superb figure of
Victory, treated with a certain
uplifted and heroic grandeur,
to which the veil adds a
shadowy mystery, which I had
very specially in my mind.

The year previous, 1909, saw
the Alice Freeman Palmer
Memorial erected in the chapel
at Wellesley College. All the
dignity and refinement of the
artist appear in this charming

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