| Show i ip k 4 p r I z t a F Y I I t y l v I r r j yr q S I 2 J l t 1 1 y 4 Aar 5 J x y o lT I n u l C 1 Y 4 d u n oi UI i L n I intro 10 lilt l nerves to direct public attention at nt C tendon to tb the per nn and 1 the tho nt ble achievements em of or the most mOlt cele celebrated I 5 members of or th time race SD and particularly the foremost representatives D' D of or the Irish race In America F Especially Es K d does each recurring holiday serve Bern os DS a n time of ot retrospect rc t for the rent event of ot the preceding year rr among n a people c who io are ever filling a very J lu large e sphere In la Inthe f the worlds world's 1 work ork be he bt the work artistic I R Industrial rom commercial I or political In ID Inthis this respect t the period that cI closes ell In March 1 IOn I. I la R iI el significant Dl ant c-ant because because be be- cause it marked the pt pawing passing ID of ot Augu Augustus L 1 St SL Gaudens sculptor 7 It has bas r neon een nl said ald that St. St Ganden wat At I. I the Ir greatest Celtic of ot the century hI r t lie ITc was nIl more more- be he was one of or the t n nt- nt t t est eat t geniuses centime the world orld prO produced In 10 Inmans Inmany many mans Not SOt only was he hI Amer foremost sculptors but hilt he was per per- hap happ the premier sculptor of or the world wor R Rr In n hi his bis generation and was so r i 1 not oDI only In tb the New few World but In the I Old That brilliancy which n appear to 10 I bo be a 0 trait of or he the Irish race rne was n In to St. St Gaudens Gl matched bv ht his bill ter versatility In Ins s hi his prolific sculpture be be- handled the widely divergent of or marble and 9 bronze b with equal facility and ID in early curly n life lite he bad proven himself a 0 roaster master ns nil r-r r i a cameo I Persons who n-ho are perhaps lust Just n trl trifle 4 I jealous of ot the pardonable Irish pride In if tit St ere crt sometimes sometime wont to point out oot that he bl was not unreservedly nn an Irish r j product lILt Ills father was a I Frenchman en es may bo Judged from the nil name Ole amid Augustus St born In to Ireland was brought to the United States b 1 when n a baby unliT so o that the tbt two tn-o republics republic re re- publics public cin claim with the Emerald Isle Isie a ft share bor of or tb the credit In 10 fostering his bis genius I However St. St t. t Gaudens wIll po go 0 down dOWD Into loto history rs re pre eminently an tin sculptor not sculptor not 50 so o much because of at the 1 locale cf of bl bis birth as because beseemed be beseemed seemed to typify in n bis his temperament y IT J i C I u f i f ft Jf t y M. M d and soil In tb the cr power of ot his hla art exactly those qualities which admirers of or the Irish Ash race rte are wont to pronounce lea Its dominant racial That be he n took the thC creates pride and amid In tere tere t ID In his bis native land there therl Is la evidence e and It Is I that the tir last pretentious piece of or work ripen n h be he nos nas en enlaced nl fd woe was a statue of or Par Par- roll cell r destined for his bis birthplace Dublin Dubin This Thle figure of at represents the tho great Irish orator Just Jost rising and aDd put pot tin tang on 00 his bis overcoat overcoat-no RO an unconventional but characteristic attitude but In this as In ID many forerunners St I conquered not Dot less Icu by the perre perfection of ot j his bill art thus thun by the d daring of or bl his bis coot con 00 Clove Close friend of or St. St r recall that It gave care him especial pride and pleasure when In 10 tb afternoon of or bis bill too all brief life there came to him tb the l' l commission for this ibis statue of ot Charles p Stewart Although tb th the sculptor was already bear lly lIy handicapped by III bi und mind was wan not oot as all free from financial worry n ns as the he artist should be be he bl attached this new work with w unusual ulim tie lit remarked over and over o that he ht bad had enough b Irish In his bis makeup to appreciate the i v r i S 1 x s- s ot z V H Y i A Sf I. I 1 J m w ha e a F dJ fir T. T a i n I character of ot his subject ct An n unexpected difficulty appeared In ID the execution of or the figure of ot Parnell Only a few rew photographs photo photo- photographs graphs of or the tbt Irish lender leader could be and roDd those available were very unsatisfactory tory as II a basis from which the sculptor should hould work So St SL Gaudens turned for his hie Inspiration to the caricatures of ot Parnell Parnell Par Par- nell Dell published hed from time to time In 10 the English funmaker Punch and thus thull the cartoons that bad been drawn originally to ridicule the Irish patriot mane came In the tbt end to serve nerve e nn no exactly opposite purpose Renders Readers who dt delight bt to note the unpromising un un- promising be beginnings of ot genius cannot t fall to be he Interested In the environment which nurtured this exponent of or Irish poetry In marble and aud bron bronze The Tb father of or the tbt sculptor Dernard Paul Pul Ernest Ernel t Saint was waa a nature native of ot the tbt south of or France and there learned his trade of at shoemaker As All a 8 young man be he over overcame conic came the Indolence of at that sunny nunny cline eUne and od became me lu In effect a tramp kr ho mak r. r Journeying by easy 1881 tn stages ell to Paris thence to London and nud finally to Dublin In Ireland where bre be fell teU under tinder the witchery of ot tb the beauty of or McGuIness n girl who bound slippers In the shoe boe store for which b be he made boots It for a time after the wedding as u though the mercurial Frenchman would settle down don and live Un happy ever e after In the I Irish metropolis but a Q few tew months after the 1 l baby came the old oil nomadic spirit returned and to eo the shoemaker lI his bis wife ift and aud family set et B sail II for America In New York the eccentric Frenchman n hotheaded and fanciful ot dt devoted d far more attention to the engrossing subject of or secret societies than be did to the more prosaic one of the shoe trade and accordingly ac so cordingly Augustus Augustas had bad early to take a hand band In 10 the battle for livelihood The drat dozen doten years year of at his life lire during which he re received lT the ordinary common school education of ot the New fw York boy of or half halfa a n century ago were Wre spent In 10 sordid surroundings sur rounding but after be hI left school at atthe the age of or thirteen n years yearn and nod was wan apprenticed tired to n cutter cameo his artistic talent developed rapidly and this despite tt the fact that t the man A Arct Aret Tet to whom be bp was wo apprenticed one apprenticed one of ot the Out first stone cameo cutters u In America was America was anything but an aD agreeable hIe employer After several rears vears of or miserable life lire un under er tempered Ill master S Saint int Gaudens Gau dens rebelled on nod and found round employment with witha a more mar tolerant toler cameo cutter Jules Toles Le fe Brethon by name All AI the while be bf was studying drawing at tb the Cooper Institute ID lu the evenings Riving giving rein to n talent that had first manifested Itself In charcoal char char- coat coal scrawls on OD the t fences near his bla home borne oD and which had hod Instantly oU arrested the attention attention at at- of or some pome of or the customers of or the shoe making father r. r A little later the I talented lad Ind left Idt tb the Cooper Institution to take toke up life work wor at the tho National ew envy etuy of or n. n Soon the young man was not only self lieU supporting thanks to his bin skill In lu cameo cameo- cutting but easily t uell excelled d all his bill fellow students nt at the art school Just JUlit here bere It may mar be bl mentioned that Saint Ganders Ganders' cameos were an Os remarkable In their way ways as s s were his l later inter tr achievements In to marble and bronze This was WOI eloquently attested by the specimens shown In la the tbt memorial exhibitions of at the work of ot recently held beld In ID New r York and Chicago o. o The years pus that taint Gaud Gaudens was WAR a student stu eto- dent Beat nt Rt Cooper Institute nod and the National Academy of ot Design Delgo marked the span of ot the Civil War and the boy Just at Rt an nn anage ft age to be ment mentally lI sensitive to the dra dramatic matic events errata of ot the period was d deeply Impressed by the spectacle of or troops departing de do- parting for tor the front trout and n a glimpse of ot the Immortal Lincoln In the streets of ot New Yort vivid Yort-TI vivid ld mind pictures In which may moy be bp found round something of ot the tb groundIngs ground ground- Ings inga of or that t Inspiration which later Inter produced pro pro produced those s figures of at Lincoln F Ferment Sherman n and Logan Lolan A couple of or years year after th the close Il of the war Saint Gaudens' Gaudens life lire In 10 New ew York lame come to an nn end for a time lie IIo went abroad to study working b his bin way as It were Vere b by cutting cameos and an for fourteen years or from the time he hI was wal el eighteen ht n 1 years yearn U of or age I until be he n- n was 8 two thirty bo ho bown was wn almost continuously hard bard at nt work In Inthe inthe the art centers of ot Europe lIe He went at fI first t to Paris Parla and tb there re to his bl fondness for two t boon companions be became bel I came near hear enlisting In la tb the French arm army when tb the Franc War broke out oat However cr a letter from his Irish mother who seems for once to have e been devoid of ot ft a traditional trait of or her race deterred him and he be went to Rome nome where for four years be waged a II continual light fight with poverty po ID tn tho effort to complete his 1111 train ing lag Finally however h his bin skill In cameo cameo- cutting Inspired some of ot the young mans man's customers r with his bis own Cou confidence deD lu in his future In 10 a larger pr sphere and one ODe of ot these theft Mr Montgomery Gibbs no nD American gave IOa Saint the tbt opportunity to finish bis first statue to statue to ex ex- acute e his WA first t ordered monument monument-Ii a figure of ot and Silence and ultima ultimately to return to Am America with that priceless boon the boon prospect ct of or a n fair amount of or definite wort wor work Even Enn they then It was wall a Q hard bud tight fight In the country coon coun try of or his adoption but nt at last lut there came the order for the statue of at which now noTt stands tand In Madison Square Snare New York nn and from that moment tb the skies brightened With success seemingly assured Saint Gaudens wedded Miss Augusta Augusta Au Au- ga gusta tn F Homer s Domer-a marriage that had d long tong waited wailed upon the dawn dawD of at financial Ind lode lade For almost sixteen years thereafter Saint Gaudens labored conscientiously l with splendid r results result In the studio lo b be he es established In New York and became almost t from the outset one of or tho the most eon con conspicuous figures JuNs JuN's la In tb the art Ufo life of ot th the metropolis While bile at d work upon that wonderful monument to the late wife of or Henry Adams Adam the historian D. a masterpiece masterpiece master master- piece of or sculpture which stands In 10 Rock Roel Creek Cemetery Washington sod and for tor which a score SCaN of ot deficient titles have haTe b been fo proposed d. although I Saint Gaudens would woold never DeTer give It one the one the sculptor a first drat t Tl visited the picturesque plc hamlet of or Cornish New Hampshire nod and there he be soon lIoon afterward bought an old brick tavern and converted It U Into loto a n summer borne home To this haven baTeD In tn the uplands of or New hew England the physically physically cally brok broken n sculptor came camf many years vears reD later to make hit his permanent residence e and nd here b he did his final work ork The Adams monument somber and In la In I U Is associated with another sig siz significant event In Saint Gaudens OIl career Ou Our One October nl night bt In to 1004 i the sculptors sculptor s chief studio burned carrying to C lion not Dot anI only all 11 the sculpture in progress but hl his portfolios containing the records record s of at forty years e On tb that t dreary g after atter the lire fire re the head bend of ot tho the Adams monument won mon faced Its Ita creator creator creator-a n seemingly ly appropriate appropriate ap or souvenir the souvenir the ono one aud and on only thing that escaped the flames Cames After Arter th thin blow Saint Gaudens set bravely to wot work It M t 1 r w 1 r y 1 tL y and tl ud soon loon had recovered In his work mo muck much of or the lost ground One circumstance that aside from his hta death gives Saint unusual prowl prom prominence n nonce nence nce in this the year of ot the he Lincoln ola e centenary l la that the be Irish sculptor In Interpreted interpreted in- in the martyr president In fa art u as unil no w. other painter or sculptor has bas ever h been 1 able to do His two heroic herol figures O tb the tb theone one Lincoln standing having place ploce In Lincoln Park Chicago ar 3 be b other showing Lincoln seated n gift gIrt ts t the South Side of or the city of or Chicago by bequest of the late John Crearer of ot that dr city the time latter one of ot Saint Gan- Gan dens den last fast et statue c seem m to reach th the tb Ter very apex apes of or achievement os as counterfeit presentments of ot th the savior sl of or the Union Only a few weeks ft ago O the national government government gov gov- selected el the Saint Gaudens s bc-s bead of Lincoln ns as the best beat portrait extant for tor reproduction on tb the one hundred million mil mU lion commemorative r postage t stamps which liD have tC been heeD issued for o use e this year Other Othe notable of or till the nations nation's most mOlt prominent men which came tIne from tb the hand bond of ot Saint were the monument t to General Logan on the Lake front Cb Oi- Oi tn cage that to James A. A eld In Fi Fr Fir Firmount r. r mount Park Philadelphia and that tr triumphant tri Sherman In C Central Park lark NewYork New NewYork York the horse boC and rider r preceded by that exultant inspiring female figure OJ of or Victory which n Saint Gl modeled from the woman whom he hI always considered coo con OD to be th the bAnd handsomest met mo model el h hi be hAd e ever tr seen I Whistler the p palates painter nail other giants of at the world of or art who were nl 1 0 o congenial ron con genial I and nd companionable to SAint Gau Gnu dens ilens endeavored to k keep p up the sculptors sculptor's spirits pi In to the fare face of at encroaching III ill health bat from 1000 lorn when he bl returned to Am America t r after n a sojourn of or three years Jean In 10 Parts Paris It was n a losing tight fight lie lived as much ns as possible In the open an and golfing Jolan while his bis strength lasted In end and later Inter sitting ny by the for hour bour on th the th porch or h being ln carried about ID in an on Improvised improvised Sedan chair chair- With his ebbing strength he he nt at the request t of or President Roosevelt prepared d tb the designs for the nations nation's D new W gold coins and finally death found toun him with his bis hands still molding n cherished d relief of at hie hla wife It TherIs Theta Ther Is fa I more than thaD ground lod for tor hope bope that the tb tb awaited tong Am American IC school bool of or arthue art IUt bus hue been en founded by this son eon OD of or Ireland Ire Ire- land whose base birthday we celebrate within the month dedicated to St. St Patrick |
