American masters of sculpture : being brief appreciations of some American sculptors and of some phases of sculpture in America (1913)
Caffin, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1854-1918 · New York : Doubleday, Page & Company · leaf 42
within the fact.But his sensibility to impressions is not onlymoved by the larger aspects of life; it is alsoexquisitely sweet and subtle. Study his numer-ous low-relief portraits—for example, the childrenof Prescott Hall Butler, those of Jacob H. Schiff,and the single portraits of Miss Violet… … RELIEF PORTRAIT OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy Augustus Saint-Gaudens AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS 17 tion. The figures are not merely set against thebackground; they grow out of it, forming with itan enclosed parterre of beautiful design, of deli-cately differing planes of elevation, of subtle tonesof gray…
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