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from seeing the speaking, simple groups of
"Arabian Nights Entertainments." Mrs. Burroughs is represented at the
Metropolitan Museum of New York by "John La Farge," a remarkably
interesting portrait head, full of character. She has the power of
speaking her language in a few words - but just the right ones.

A. Stirling Calder
The man at the wheel in the management of all the works of sculpture
at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition has been A. Stirling
Calder. He was born at Philadelphia in 1870. Having studied four years
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he had the advantage of two

years in Paris. For some time he has been connected with the
Philadelphia School of Industrial Arts. He is a man of splendid
imagination, of dignified and noble purpose, being one of the sincere
men of his art who keeps the standards where they should be. One of
his early works, "The Man Cub," in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, is most original and interesting in its treatment. It stands a most
unique figure in the line of sculpture. It is said that his "Martha W.
Baldwin Memorial" is one of the best designs for a figure and pedestal
yet produced in America. Mr. Calder lived some time in southern
California and when there did the sculptured work on the portico of
Throop Polytechnic Institute of Pasadena. This work was done by
means of enormous castings made in fine concrete. Mr. Calder
originated this method and it will probably be the means of
revolutionizing the relief work done on many of the public buildings in
the future. Mr. Calder's rare intellectual fiber, added to his accurate
knowledge of his subjects, with his exalted outlook, has placed him
among the foremost American sculptors.

James Earle Fraser
James Earle Fraser was born at Winona, Minnesota, in 1876. His father
was a railroad constructor, so that the lad had a good chance in
traveling around the country to study the free types and life of the West.
Being very impressionable, he imbibed a great deal which he has
turned to good account in his chosen work. At fourteen he started to
carve figures from the chalk that conventionality required to be used on
blackboard problems. At eighteen he entered the Chicago Art Institute,
where he stayed for but three months. He soon went to Paris, going first
to the Beaux Arts and later to the Colorossi and Julian Academies. He
won many honors during his three years stay in Paris. In 1898 he won
the prize offered by the American Art Association in Paris for the best
work in sculpture. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was on the jury and
immediately became interested in the talented boy who later on held
the place of chief assistant in the Saint-Gaudens studio. He became
instructor of the Art Students' League of New York in 1906, holding
the position until 1911. He it was who made the new five-cent piece

design - the Indian head on one side, the bison on the other. He is
particularly interested in personalities, having done a number of very
clever portrait busts. It is enough to look at the portrait bust of Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney's boy to realize what he is able to do in the line
of portraiture. He has produced nothing finer in that line. He is a master
of character records.

Daniel Chester French
Since the passing of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French
has been regarded by many as standing at the head of American
sculpture. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1850. After
having one year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he
studied with Doctor Rimnier of Boston, the first teacher of art anatomy
in the United States. Later he studied with Thomas Ball of Florence,
Italy, and a short time in Paris. He has been practically his own
instructor. His work is of the noblest type. It is anatomically correct, of
a high intellectual order, perfect technique and of fine imagery. His first
important work was "The Minute Man" of Concord, Massachusetts.
Among his many works are "Death and the Sculptor," "The Alice
Freeman Palmer Memorial," the head of "Emerson" (which caused
Emerson to say, "This is the head I shave"), "The Milmore Memorial,"
"The Alma Mater of Columbia College," and finest of all, the
wonderful "Mourning Victory" in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord.
His memorials are of high spiritual import.

Sherry E. Fry
Sherry E. Fry was born in Iowa in 1879. He has been most fortunate in
having the best instruction, having studied at the Chicago Art Institute,
the Julian Academy and the Beaux Arts of Paris, a year in Florence,
and later with McMonnies, Barrias, Verlet and Lorado Taft. He has
traveled extensively, so has had the