Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...article on "The Outlook for Sculpture in America," by the American sculptor William Ordway Partridge is also interestingly illustrated. In regard to his subject, Mr. Partridge says...
...most striking thing in the whole room is a ghastly death mask. It is a copy of the original death mask of Oliver Cromwell, and contains quite a history. A number of years ago, the sculptor, Thomas Woolner, who is the author of the famous bust of Carlyle, presented to the historian a cast taken directly from the original death mask of Cromwell, which is in his possession. In 1873, Carlyle. in turn, gave it to Charles Eliot Norton. Later, when Carlyle left to Harvard his valuable library of works on Cromwell, which he had collected during the studies...
...also give and bequeath to the said corporation the marble bust of my said husband made by the late H. K. Browne, sculptor, to be kept in a suitable hall or room in the said Art Museum...
William Wetmore Story, '38, the well-known American sculptor, who has been residing in Italy since 1848, has just given to the public a most interesting work entitled, "Conversations in a Studio." Two persons-presumably architects-meet in their studios, and naturally talk of that which is nearest to them, namely, of art. The conversations, nine in number, centre upon painting, sculpture, music and literature, but they are always "straying from the direct" and touch all manner of subjects. They contain a mint of information, and show the many-sidedness of Mr. Story's intellect; he is as much...