Show L t l i. i I jC I d r q tM I Not About the Man but the Relative Merits o of th the Pre Presentments by Augustus Saint aln Gaudens and George Gray Barnard and How the u an an r r sky Saint Gaudens Version Was Chosen a at Last for the City o of London 10 1 4 r. r r r r e eL r L i I i it r T y r t q yr t g Sl ti f i f fy y t r ea 1 t E I r 4 c ca r a rY 7 7 fr Rt 1 1 y t r r cV D I u af ft a I f fy y George Gray Barnard at Work WOk on a New and Gigantic Head of Lincoln i f f By ive Marshall IN rN th the long contest of opinion as to lo whether Saint faint Gul Gaudens's enss ens's interpretation of Abraham braham f. f I Lincoln or the the inter interpretation nt it by George Gray Barnard should be duplicated in London the illustrious Saint Gaudens wins out The Lincoln of OL Lincoln Park Chicago will stand in the thc British capital fir Mr Ir Barnards Barnard's r version will stand in iii in another English city citro No art quarrel in history has exceeded in ill iii animation this quarrel as to the merits o of tb j two Uvo great statues I particularly r as to the thc merits of of Barnard Barnard's s 's s revolutionary representation tiou Of course opinions opinion of a work of art must differ Matters of science are arc matters of off fact f ct Matters of art art- are arc matters of opinion Unless a thing is a matter mattei of opinion it cannot be art at all This is why opinions change from generation to gen generation lat ion A work of art I that ha is ridiculed in i one olle generation often is i C in ill the thc next Believes Believers rs min in the genius of George Gla Gray Grav Barnard call attention to this fact Rodin's work caller called forth howls is of d deri ri- ri sion slOn Then it was worshipped You never can tell fell t. t Artist Sentiment for Barnard A Artistic sentiment t. t was was strong st ran g for Bald Barnard arna 1 1 from t the hc b beginning ing I. I Ot Oth Other C er r sentiment t i ment o i Ws against it an and against it strongly Lincoln's son SOIl objected to Mr 11 Barnar Barnards Barnard's 8 vl I tion tt n of his lis father an and this tills was an important circumstance IP A recent art writer Henr Henry McBride sa says s of r the two to works Saint Gaudens's Lincoln is altogether weak and ineffectual and it was fast into the obscurity for which it seems ultimately destined when the political c l opponents o of Mr lr Barnard in despair of combating him with Uh a living American sculptor Hashed flashed the cruel and all too revealing re limelight upon it IL As it fails faUs in almost every elY wa way way- Tho The figure fig fiS- ure lacks lack stability does not stand properly the frock coat Is ts hopelessly hopelessly- uninteresting the face ace lacks profundity profundity- and the tIle unfortunate chair which is Part pait o of the composition is pathetically absurd Whatever else may be said of or Mr Barnards Barnard's Lincoln it is at least good solid sculpture and stands out with the simple immovable immovable im im- I movable force that was part art pf pr the dead hero Ono One may quarrel with some of Mr Barnards Barnard's ideas of or Lincoln I do but not with his work work- manship On tho the other hand Saint Gaudens may ay not be said to have IHl a n compelling idea of or Lincoln at all at least ho he has not expressed it o C c- c D. D Gibson and other prominent artists ap ap- proved ro highly of Barnards Barnard's bold treatment of or w his subject Frederic ono one of or 1 g Americas America's o greatest sculptors joins with John Sargent I Americas America's greatest painter in fu tudors In- In p Barn Barnards Barnard's S 5 Dard's Dards rd's method of o f expressing in Lincoln's I D noo tit tuie f in the render rendering QC b of or his clothes in the rt ar rd d simplicity of or his whole attitude the G c character of or the true n ma maa la t 1 f l I Saint Gaudens's Noble Work a n Yet ret admirers o of the Lincoln Park statue have Gaud TV work Worl rk to toe champion n. n At tho the time Saint m In went aUd nt e ns made mado this statue there was wide agree asree- of on its S wonderful power and the thc eminence eminence- by nt Gau Gaudens en himself has bas bas' not been disturbed 1 time In The Education or of r Benr Henry y dams Adams the theft of o this boo k it ft Gau Gauden o Ot of recollections says bays s 's of Saint dens I that haV Iu In mere ti time me he was a lost soul faoul at had ad t strayed ed b by chance into the twentieth t. t I j century and forgotten where it had como come from rom lie He writhed and cursed at al his own ignorance much as Adams did at his own o but in the opposite opposite site sense Saint Gaudens was a child of oC BenVenuto Benenuto Benvenuto Ben- Ben venuto Cellini smothered in an American cradle Adams was a quintessence of Boston devoured de by curiosity curiosity- to think like e Benvenuto S Saint Gaudens's art was starved from birth and d 1 Adams's Ad- Ad ams's aniss instinct was blighted from rom babyhood babyhood Each had but halt half of a nature and when they the came together before the Virgin o of Amiens they ought both hoth to have felt in her tho the force that tint made them one but It was not so To A Adams dams she became more ore than over a channel of force orce to S Saint Gaudens she remained as b before a aThe channel of oC taste The Deciding Voices The Saint Gaudens statue statu will be erected in the Canning In Westminster ster Dr Nicholas Murray Butler Chairman of or the American Amen Amerl- can Committee makes es the following statement statement- In a 1 statement of ot this subject submitted b by me last April I quoted advices from the British Brit UrIt- ish Centenary Committee showing that this committee originally accepted June 13 1 1913 13 the offer of this Saint Gaudens replica and that the true sll site at Westminster was on its request off off- tj j lly Illy designated for u. u Those advices also showed that in th the spring of or 1 1917 17 the tho executive chairman of or the thu American Peace Centenary Committee had offered in place of or tho the Saint Gaudens replica a statue of oC Lincoln by George Gray Barnard advising tho the British committee that the latter statue was Intended a as a superior substitute The British committee evidently e believing a that thi this was an Ull action of or the full American committee nn agreed ed to tho the substitution and seE secured se se- E cured an official designation of the Westminster site Bite on 1 March Maich 31 31 1917 tot foi the substitute statue M ti I y ti r r m 7 y i. i y v S H S r s f P 4 f V I f r 1 f j t t tF S SI S 1 S F f rf f fr X r t t h r rM M y v P 1 k i l' l rr w r y f fk k a q p N A I YC v fw C. C 7 f 7 f fa frN fv a v rN n a ys pr y x xa a lr r Mp t r M i M I A Midnight Photograph of the Lincoln Statue by Augustus Saint Gaudens in Lincoln Park Chicago Chosen at Last for Duplication Duplica Duplica- tion in London By c G W Wey yo 9 y r. Head of the t. t Barnard Lincoln Which Has Occasioned the Wide Dispute and Which Will Be Set up in England in a no City Other Than London The Tho l Academy with many other organizations organizations organ organ- devoted oled to art and the public generally generall strongly disapproved of or this substitution and the manner in which It had been effected This is attested by br many strong resolutions notably those of the Fine Art Federation of or New York the American Federation of Art the New ew York Chapter of the Institute of or Architects the thc National National Na Na- Academy itself and b by countless letters The Tho Council of the National Academy then and authorized its vice president toI to requested I American Centenary Committee Believing Believing Believing Be Be- roll noil tho the 1 lieving with tho the English committee that the full AmerIcan committee had acted the result of or the 1 poll 1 was astonishing Of or six seventy six sc relics rev ze- Head of Lincoln by Alexander i 1 either against the Barnard one fifty were or in m favor of or the Saint Gaudens or both two twenty two were non non-c norm non one was doubtful doubtful doubtful doubt doubt- ful one ambiguous and only one frankly favored favored fa fa- the Barnard statue On this page is printed a photograph of or George Gra Gray Barnard at work in hr his studio on a gigantic new head of or Lincoln As As the photograph photograph photograph photo photo- graph shows the tho work is incomplete as to tha the hair which here appears on only in mass The face shows some notable differences from the tho other Barnard head revealed in the adjoining picture The style also is different with tho the peculiarities of oC Lincoln's strong face much emphasized Above all questions of or likeness or art rises the great fact of supreme significance that the fame of Lincoln himself waxes from year to year car and never rose so high as it has risen in the present crisis of the tho world |