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...latest work, The Chrysalis, depicting a young man emerging from the form of a gorilla, was refused admission to the current exhibition of the National Academy on the ground of lack of artistic merit (TIME...
Carl E. Akeley, of Manhattan, known as a penetrator of Africa, a good friend of the gorilla, and an intimate of many other wild beasts, is not only a naturalist, but a sculptor. He has from time to time submitted statues for entrance in the exhibitions of the National Academy of Design. This year for the first time, his work was rejected...
...Academy declared that having space for only 400 works at its exhibition, Mr. Akeley's bronze was of insufficient artistic merit to be included. His subject was The Chrysalis and showed a hoary gorilla from which was emerging the idealized form...
...home of the ape and gorilla is in the big forest, three thousand miles long and twenty-five hundred miles wide, situate in the equatorial regions of Africa. In this forest are trees some one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet high, and others even five hundred feet in height. Under these is the vast jungle, impenetrable except as one follows the path of the natives form tribe to tribe...
...marvellous stories, some of pigmies and others of monstrous creatures. These stories, improbable as they seemed, all agreed with one another. Convinced finally that there must be some truth in them, he determined to push on into the forest. There he was so fortunate as to kill a monster gorilla, the first gorilla killed by any white man since Hannibal slew them two thousand five hundred years...