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...Barnard S. Straus -- Miss Ann Eiseman, New York...
...Cloisters would never have been built but for the acquisitive energy of the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard (TIME, May 2). In France before the War, Sculptor Barnard kept his eye peeled for fine examples of Gothic stone work. He brought back to the U. S. large sections of the cloisters of four great, abandoned monasteries, installed them with other medievaluables in a gallery next to his studio. In 1925 John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought this collection for $600,000, presented it to the Metropolitan Museum, added gifts of his own. When he gave Fort Tryon Park to the City...
Never in the U. S. history, says Author Barnard, had a man been assaulted in the press so fiercely and irrationally. The vituperation went on for months, increasingly hysterical, until Altgeld was all but broken by it. The usual report has been that Altgeld never recovered from this verbal bombardment. Barnard's account, however, is that after being dazed and bewildered, the governor suddenly began to fight with the savagery of a man who has nothing more to lose. When Cleveland sent Federal troops to Chicago during the Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head...
EAGLE FORGOTTEN-Harry Barnard- Bobbs-Merrill...
Died. George Grey Barnard, 74, U. S. sculptor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. George Barnard learned taxidermy and engraving before he studied sculpture. In Paris, where he all but starved, his critics compared him to Michelangelo. Serene, dynamic and a prodigious worker, stocky Sculptor Barnard admired the great Gothic and Renaissance stone-carvers, amassed the finest collection of Gothic sculpture in the U. S. Stormiest of his stormy projects was his lank, saddened figure of Lincoln, which was refused a place in Westminster Abbey in 1917, relegated to Manchester, England. For the last 20 years he had labored...