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Sculptor Barnard was born in Bellefonte, Pa., started life as a taxidermist. Starving in Paris, he earned the jealous admiration of Auguste Rodin when he was a student in his twenties. With his chisel he has made at various times enormous sums of money. He once estimated that his Lincoln statues brought him over $260,000. Three of his countless pieces give him a secure place in any history of Art: Adam & Eve, now on the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills; the gaunt standing Lincoln intended for Westminster Abbey, now in Manchester, England; the nude reclining Pan, once...
...theatrical gesture, he ordered sprinkled on the waves of the Pacific. Newspapers gave him gaudy obituaries,* told how at 15 he ran off with his father's mistress, how he specialized in love-making while he was successively a baker's assistant, a trapeze artist, a model for Auguste Rodin ("Eternal Springtime"), how he first arrived in the U. S. as Sarah Bernhardt's leading man. The final Hollywood picture was of a broken, hollow-eyed matinee idol who kept having his face lifted...
...father. But sea motifs have always played through his art, and fountains are his favorite and best subjects. He de signed a fountain of Tritons for McKinlock Court at the Chicago Art Institute, a jolly merman and mermaid for a Stock holm public square. He studied under Rodin, was for a time submerged by his master's style but finally broke away, developed a style of his own which experts today consider as genuinely MILLES as Michelangelo's was MICHELANGELO. He has the grave face of a Catholic priest, the soft, calm voice of a man who sees...
...apparently, is a direct and unblushing representation of American life." Architect Frank Lloyd Wright meets with Critic Craven's approval. One of the few art writers of today to uphold George Grey Barnard and his vast vaporings in stone, Mr. Craven recalls that no less a person than Rodin once openly envied this aging U. S. sculptor. Of Jacob Epstein's 100-odd "masculine" bronzes, he says: "There is not a dead one in the lot. . . . One of the most original styles in all sculpture." He advises Jose Clemente Orozco to return to Mexico if he wants...
...reported to have been sold), 32,500 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R.. one share of Jekyl Island (Ga.) Club valued at $1,500. His chattels, appraised at $736,604, included a 16th Century Indo-Persian rug ($60,000); two Beauvais wall tapestries and four Beauvais panels ($155,000); Rodin's The Kiss ($20,000). Under the will as probated, the banker's son and namesake, now chairman of First National Bank, received the bulk of the estate and personal effects. Two daughters, Evelyn Baker St. George of London and Florence Baker Loew of New York, received...