Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard is the life of a portraitist. Bitterly did British sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman realize this last week. Year ago he won a competition to design an equestrian memorial statue of the late Field Marshal Lord Haig. In his own mind Sculptor Hardiman decided that when he was ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...
While there could be no doubt whatever that the second Hardiman horse was a very bad horse, art critics regarded the controversy last week as part of the bitterness that seems always to follow equestrian sculpture. When the late great "'Marse Henry" Watterson, Confederate scout, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, first saw St. Gaudens' equestrian statue of General Sherman being led by an angel, he said: "Just like the - - to make the lady walk...
...will give to friends after painting silhouets on the cars "to personalize the owner's individuality." First car she embellished with horses & hounds, sent to sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain who, last year, helped rescue a school friend of Miss Eames after she had suffered an equestrian mishap near Madrid. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday...
Within the past six months in France a great equestrian statue of Marshal Foch was unveiled at Cassel, a monumental figure of Marshal Joffre at Chantilly. On both occasions, art critics and a large section of the French press howled in derision, said that the monuments were blots on the landscape. The French Ministry of Beaux Arts suddenly sided with the critics last week, announced that no contract would be awarded, all designs and models would be returned, in the contest for a monument to perpetuate the memory of the Battle of the Marne. Reason: there is no living sculptor...