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International studio (1897)

New York · leaf 18

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ofits entourage. The development ofAmerican sculpturesince the somewhatdim, indeterminate days when Patience Wright, of Bordentown, firstbegan modelling wax portraits and silhouettesof celebrities local and national, is fraught withvicissitudes. Reference has already- been madeto the… … INFANT SMILING grievously in this latter regard. We have dis-figured many a noble space and obstructedcountless streets and public squares, yet still weare somehow learning our lesson aright. AtPhiladelphia in 1876 sculpture was not identifiedwith architecture. It was something apart,isolated from…

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