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Show SCULPTOR IS IRKING ON PIOHEERMONUMENT Will Embody Spirit of Great West in His Latest Work. BY PAUL VILLIERS. .Special Cable to The Tribune. PATHS, Jan. 22, Spurred on by his dream of a new masterpiece, Mr. Fred-crick Fred-crick MacMonnies, tho famous sculptor, is working with feverish baste- upon his latest, work tho Denver Pioneer Monument, Mon-ument, the figuro of a frontier wio do-fonding do-fonding her homo, surmounted .by4 au idealized ligure-of that famous American Kit, Carson. When T called, at Mr. MacMonnies 's stud', I found hip deeply ongaged upou his. work. Almost too deeply ongaged to talk. He has mado several rough draughts of the monument, monu-ment, but '.dissatisfied with them, had thrown ythem away. ' Spirit of Great West. ffI wish to embody tho spirit oC tho great west in this work,'- said the sculptor. sculp-tor. "To typify the freedom and boldness bold-ness of the plains and mountains and ai tho same time I wish to portray the Tuggodness of tho men and women who blazed trails through Iho primeval forests for-ests and led tho wajT for civilization. I hope the monument to bo. one of tho best works I have completed. I want people to call it one of my masterpieces.'' master-pieces.'' Mr. MacMonnies is a tireless workor under ordinary circumstauvesj but. his great interest "in theprosent work doubles dou-bles his activity, lie spends tho en-tiro en-tiro day chipping and modelling and the night in skotching. and remodeling. After tho commission for tho work was given him tho sculptor began reading up on American frontier .life, aud aaro say that he knows more ubout Kit Carson Car-son than any other Amoricnn in Europe. Eu-rope. Will Surpass Former Work. 1 Mr. MacMonnies has always looked upon his statuo of Nathan Hale in New "iork City halKpark as one of his best works, but hopes his western subject will surpass it. Ho will go to tho United States in about, thrco months. |