Word: equestrianism
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Last week morose Ivan Mestrovic stepped off the 'Leviathan at Manhattan and growled to reporters that he had brought with him two heroic equestrian statues of American Indians in bronze which will shortly be erected in Chicago...
...Daniel Chester French's equestrian statue of Washington, erected...
...park before the Pension Office ("Judiciary Square") a crowd gathered, and in the Plaza San Martin at Buenos Aires, another crowd. Each crowd looked up to a great equestrian statue and saw just what the other crowd saw, the same horse, the same man. The crowd at Buenos Aires then looked to a platform and saw President Alvear and Ambassador Peter Augustus Jay; and the crowd at Washington saw President Coolidge and Ambassador Honorio Pueyrredon. Before the crowd and before the replica of the statue of Jose de San Martin, liberator of Argentina, Mr. Coolidge exclaimed...
Born in Vienna, he won a prize at the Royal Academy, Berlin, began his career there in the days when the Kaiser perniciously interfered in the work of every studio. Fuchs at length obtained permission from the imperial megalomaniac to execute a silver equestrian statuette; his reputation was made. He went to Rome, was patronized by yellow Italian noblemen with peaked eyes and thin noses; Queen Margherita came to see his work; John Singer Sargent encouraged him to remove to London. There he sculped everyone of consequence. His book bristles with passages like the following...
...Equestrian statue of General Gregg, Commander of the Union cavalry at Gettysburg, for Reading...