George Washington Sat Here … And Here …
Mary Sayre HaverstockDecember 1972James Fenimore Cooper told him; Charles Sumner and Ralph Waldo Emerson told him; even Charles Bulfinch, one of the architects of the Capitol, told him; but Horatio...
View ArticleSculpting T.R.
James Earle FraserApril 1972In December, 1968, we printed “A Dakota Boyhood,” a warm, sensitive appreciation of childhood taken from an unpublished autobiography of the popular American sculptor James...
View ArticleOnly One Life, But Three Hangings
George D. VaillAugust 1973In September a statue of Nathan Hale, martyr-patriot of the Revolution, is to be unveiled near the main entrance to the CIA headquarters in Washington. A similar statue has...
View ArticleMallet, Chisel, And Curls
Vinnie Ream sculptured Lincoln while she was still a teen-agerLee RoderickFebruary 1976President Lincoln had been dead more than three years in May of 1868, and the model of his statue still rested...
View ArticleA Bicentennial Sampler
August 1976COPYRIGHT © 1976, WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTIn an imposing observance of the nation’s Bicentennial the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City has devoted its entire building to...
View ArticleA 1783 Monument To American Independence Makes Sense-but In Yorkshire, England?
Maurice BeresfordDecember 1977It is normally the winners, not the losers, who erect triumphal irches at a war’s end. Yet at Parlington Park in West Yorkshire, some two hundred miles north of London,...
View ArticleThe Colossus Of Staten Island
A ponderous memorial to a people who refused to vanishWilliam C. FranzApril/May 1979 Had one man’s grandiose vision been realized, the first sight to greet immigrants arriving in the New World after...
View ArticleStonework
A photographic record of the boom years in the granite quarries of Barre, VermontPatricia W. BeldingDecember 1980Barre, cried one Vermont newspaper in 1893, was “The Busy Hustling Chicago of New...
View ArticleSaving The Statue
After standing in New York Harbor for nearly one hundred years, this thin-skinned but sturdy lady needs a lot of attention. She’s getting it- from a crack team of French and American architects and...
View ArticleSaint-gaudens
His works ranged from intimate cameos to heroic public monuments. America has produced no greater sculptor.Ruth Mehrtens CalvinJune/july 1985For the “mysterious aura” of his art, a critic has compared...
View ArticleAn Epitaph For Mr. Lincoln
The curiously troubled origin of a brief and fitting inscriptionH. Wayne MorganFebruary/March 1987On February 9, 1911, Congress approved a bill authorizing construction of a monument to Abraham...
View ArticleLittle Big Top
Superb carvings by an obscure artisan recapture the circus world of the 1920sDecember 1987 Much has been written about the magical appeal traveling circuses had for small-town America in the...
View ArticleThe Shocking Blue Hair Of Elie Nadelman
He ignored the conventions of his day and became one of the greatest American sculptors of this centuryCynthia NadelmanMarch 1989I find myself sketching a top hat on a snapshot I’ve taken of a former...
View ArticleA Capitol Attraction
Spring 2009 Washington’s newest attraction proves that progress can come to the capital city. Last December, just in time for President Obama’s inauguration, Congressional leaders proudly dedicated the...
View ArticleAdventures in Paris
American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens finds inspiration in France to create one of America’s most iconic sculptures, a memorial to Civil War hero Adm. David FarragutDavid McCulloughFall 2011AUGUSTUS...
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