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SCULPTORS AT WORK
When Phidias wa's chief of sculpture
Athens,' B. "C. 450 6r thereabouts,
there were lively doings among those
artists whose chisels carved the figures
and groups of the immortal Parthenon.
jtMiidias has a task on his hands in
those days somewhat resembling that
0/ the sculptor in these days charged
With the duty of supervising the sculp
tural decorations of a great interna
tional exposition. There was a differ
ence, however, Phidias._had a number
of years in which to execute in mar
fclc the gOds and goddesses and heroes
Of Greek mythology who were created
lor the adornment of the Athenian
Acropolis, .while the sculpture tor a
world's fair like that at St. Louis in
1904 has all to be planned out on pa
per, modelled in clay, and enlarged in
plaster, marble 'and bronze, and placed
in position 011 buildings and grounds,
inside of about eighteen months. This
means in the first place a great deal oi
thought and study and consultation in
the conception and development of
what is termed "the sculptural scheme."
Next comes the delicate task of award
ing commissions lor the execution of
the different portions of the work. As
sculptors and other artists are often
possessed by the green-eyed demon of
jealousy and seldom use that petition
of the litany which asks for deliver
ance frpm "envy, hatred, and malice,"
this ta.sk of parcelling oitt the com
missions to the most capable and
meritorious artists is not so easy and
delightful a function as it might seem
to the uninitiated. Karl Bitter, chief
of the department of sculpture'at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, has
Scenes in the Stud'os Where Statuary Is Being Hade For the
World's Fair at St. Louis—A Great Work is Being Accom
plished in a Short Tim*.
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the knack of getting along pretty well
with his fellow laborers 111 the sculp
tor's guild and is on the whole so level
headed that thus far he has been able
to keep comparative peace in the fami
ly since the work of producing decora
tive sculpture for the World's Fair
was entrusted to his hands.
Once the commissions are award
ed the work of modelling the figures
and groups begins in the studios of the
various sculptors. After the models
are completed and passed on by Chief
Bitter and his advisors. J. Q. A. Ward.
Augustus St. Gardens and Daniel C.
French, they go to the big enlargement
shops at Hoboken where they are
"built up" by the workmen employed
for that purpose. Much of the work
is also done in St. Louis. There are
some eighty or more men employed i*.i
the Weehawken shops and others at
the St. Louis end of the line, while the
sculptors who have received commis
sions to model statuary for the World's
Fair number between ninety and ico.
Thus it will be seen that Mr. Bitter
has a }argc task oil his hands and even
Phidias when he was commissioned by
Pericles to superintend the sculpture
for the Acropolis did not assume
much more difficult contract. Of
course Mr. Bitter is too modest to
wish to be compared to the immortal
Phidias, nevertheless there exists
similarity in their tasks.
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A round of the studios -Where sculp
tors are now at work for'the decora
tion of the World's Fair makes an in
teresting tour. The writer recently
accompanied Mr. Bitter on one of the
trips of inspection which he frequently
takes to see how the work on models
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is progressing and give the artists any
suggestions or advice which they may
need. One thing was evident frqiu
these visits. The sculptors all feel tl^at
they have a great opportunity'and each
is anxious that liis work shall compare
well with that of his associate? -and
help to make the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition a great artistic success,
A sculptor's studio is not usually an
elegant ayartment luxuriously'furn
ished with rugs and divans, portierres
and tapestries, 5 o'clock tea sets andi
objects of virtn from all over the
world, such as one might fexpect to
find on visiting the working place of
an eminent painter. The average sculp
tor s studio is a good deal of a workf
shop, not so very artistic in furnishings
and general appearance, though this is
not always so and the studios Of such
men as Charles H. Niehaus, K&rl Bit-:
ter, Daniel C. French. George Grey
Barnard, and some others, especially
those who have studios in -connection
with country homes, have ,not a little
that is artistic or imposing or pictur
esque in aspect. The main essentials
are good light, clay for modelling, the
proper tools, and costumes^,^models,
etc.. according to the work in hand.
Given these, the surroundings and ac
ccssories of the studio are a secondary
consideration. One often finds a sculp
tor whose name is known throughout
the land working in a place that closely
resembles a barn or a loft of !a stable,
in fact, stable buildings are sometimes'
chosen for sculptor's studios and sev
eral New ork streets are largely giv
en up to the housing of horses, auto
mobiles. and artists. One such place',
is Macdougal Alley, near Eighth Street
which is a sort of sculptor's row. «la
spite of its inartistic name it contains'
the studio of such very artistic men as
Philip Martiny, who is at work on a
figure of Nature for the fine arts pal
ace. a fountain for the manufacturers
building, and other work, and whose
beautiful fountain of abundance at the
Pan-American Exposition will be re
membered by many of Andrew O'Con
ner, a young sculptor whose recent ca
reer has been almost meteoric, of H.
K. Bush-Brown, and J. E. Fraser.
William Packard and other young men
of promise. Mr. O'Conner. whose
work in marble for St. Bartholomew's.
Church. New York, has recently been
the subject of much complimentary
talk in art circles, is now -working on
the model of a composition in bronze,
to surmount the fine arts palace en
titled Inspiration, which promises to
be up to the high artistic standard he
has set for himself.
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How Women Act While Consulting a Male Physician^
A woman is sick some disease peculiar to her sex is fast developing in her system. She goes to
her family physician and tells him her story, htjt'.tyot the whole story. She holds something
back, loses her head, becomes agitated, forgets what she wants to say, and finally conceals/*
what she ought to have told, and
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wonder, therefore, that the doctor fails to cure the disease Still, we cannot blame
the woman, for it is very embarrassing to detail some of the symptoms of her
suffering, even to her family physician. It was for this reason that years
ago Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham determined to step in and help her sex.
Having had considerable experience in 'treating female ills with her
Vegetable Compound, she encouraged the women of America to
write to her for advice in regard to tfieir complaints, and being a
woman, it was easy for her ailing sisters to pour into her ears every
detail of their suffering. In ihis way 2
Mrs. Pinkham, in Lynn, Mass,
was able to do for them what the physicians were unable to do'
simply because she had the proper information to work upon,'
and from the little group of women who sought her advice years 1
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A similar artist colony is located in
the Holbein Studios in West Fifty-fifth
Street and here in proximity to such
well known painters as Kenyon Cox
and Elliot Dangerfield, one finds sculp
tors like Augustus Lukeman, Herman
MacNeil and Jonothan Scott Hartley,
also Miss Carrie Wood of St. Louis,
vvoh is doing a staute of Misouri for
,thc Missouri state building at the fair.
Mr. Lukeman has completed four seat
ed figures for the palace of electricity
and also a statue of Robert Linvings
ton. portraying him as a chancellor.
Next to him is Jonathan Scott Hartley
whose new statue of Ericsson was re
cently unveited in Battery Park and.
whose work for the World's Fair con
sists of a fine statue of Leclede, found
er of St. Louis. Mr. MacNeil who is
doing the sculpture for the centra
fountain of the Cascades, works durtj
the warm season at his summer
stui
at College Point. Many other sen!
tors follow
a
timilar
plan. For
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a- great army of her fellow beings are to-day constantly applying'
for advice and relief, and during the last year many, many thou
\sands every month have written and received valuable advice and
'Vielp. Nowhere except at Lydia E. Pinkham's laboratory in Lynn
there such an amount of information at hand to assist in
le treatment of all kinds of female ills, from the simplest
-local irritation to the most complicated diseases of the
womb. The records of all the many hundreds of thou
of cases as to whic hadvice has been asked are
^here kept on file by Mrs. Pinkham, and from this vast
^experience she is able] to do more than the family
/sician for ailing women. Any woman, there
.fore, is responsible for her own suffering who will not take the trouble
to write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. The testimonials which we are
constantly publishing from grateful women establish beyond a doubt
the power of LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE
stancc. F. E. Ehvell. who is at work on
statuary in marble for the fine arts
building, has a farm at Sandwich. Mass.
where he goes on the approach- Of sum
mer to commune with nature and get
.nspiration for his artistic' pursuits.
Part of his time at this season is de
voted .to-.mowing the grass and hoeing
the corn, and part to building up into
the concrete form of a clay model his
artistic ideas.
There is an. air of artistic freedom
in these studios which is different from
that found anywhere else. When work
ing in clay on his model the sculptor
usually attires himself in loose clothes
and rolls up bis sleeves and perhaps
he adds to his wpmanlikc appearance
by putting 011 a pair of overalls. The
students, of whom there are often sev
eral, in the studios of the best known
sculptors, are similarly attired and the
place thus takes on the aspect of an
art factory with a busy industry going
on. The studio of Philip Martiny.
whose*work for St. Louis includes
quite a number of figures and groups,
is illustrative of this. The shop-like
rooms are filled with sketches, casts,
models and figures done in years and
enlarged and set up in the places for
which they were intended, and sculp
tured works in 'various stages of com
pletion. Mr. 'Martiny is famous for
nis decorative work. His compositions
are very fanciful and imaginative and
the allegorical theme seems to be his
favorite subject.
It is sometimes 3 subject of comment
that so many of the sculptors work -on
figures and groups for the World's
Fair at St. Louis live in New York and
its vicinity. That is not because any
favorism has been shown New 101k
men' in the awarding of commissions,
but it is due to the fact that in the me
tropolis and its environs reside most
of the sculptors of America, for it is
here that the art center as well as the
financial center of the country is sit
uated. Comparatively few of thfcse men
are natives of New York. It should
be added that important commissions
have gone to sculptors residing in other
parts of the country. If New Yorkers
have the lion's share.it is simply owing
to the fact that this city is where the
great majority of sculptors reside.
The models of sculpture from these
many studios, all have to pass under
the critical eyie of the chief of sculp
ture, Mr. Bitter, before they go to the
enlarging shop at Hobokej?, and if
Chief Bitter is in any doubt about the
merits of a figure or group he goes to
his associates of the sculpture advisory
committee, Messrs. French! Ward and
St. Gafudens. to assist him in the solu
tion of the problem. Considering what
a jealous lot of people artists are as a
general thing the work of the decora
tion of the St. Louis- World's Fair has
progressed thus far wijh comparatively
few family jars. The zeal and gener
ous rivalry among the fraternity as a
whole in regard to the decorative
sculpture of the great artiste and edu
cational enterprise at St. Lpuis prom
ise to yield gratifying results for the
benefit' of the millions who will behold
these tyorks of genius next
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in 18^8 my safe brought out all its
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^LOCKED THE EXCURSION..
Pink Paper: 'The executive commit
tee of the N.*' D. Press Association has
probably effectually blocked the winter
excursion by their action at thp .Grand
Forks' meeting. Thtffr artempt^to mix
it with an excursion to the St Louis
fair seems high- handed,. Xhe only ques
tions they could properly consider art
those which are likely to mature during
their present, term oi office.. .An excur
sion in /August or September Of next
year is proper matter for the Association
to discuss at its winter meeting or at
the annual meeting in, July. The carry
ing out of such an excursion would
properly belong to the executive commit
ter elected at the next annual meeting.
While the members of' the committee
may not have intended to prevent a win
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august body- to be held in any higher es
teem. They are."the-whole'-thing,'
matters of this kind and can be as ar
bitrary as they choose. There is every
reason why both excursions should be
had, providing enough want to go 011^
each. Neither need interfere with the
Other No line of railway need be ask
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those who would prefer a Winter trip to
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