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Emmett Lawrence of Georgia could move marble statuary. And many a sculptor found it out. Frederick MacMonnies, Daniel Chester French, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, George Grey Barnard-all employed Emmett Lawrence. They knew little about him, but it was enough. A tall, powerfully muscled Negro, his reputation spread slowly and mysteriously. He knew just what joists to build, what pressures to apply. With perhaps five or six assistants, he would work for hours over slow shifts and perilous easements. Emmett Lawrence eyed and estimated, gave the commands. Often night fell or rains came but there was no stopping. The placing...
...years ago he contracted consumption. That dignified patrician, Sculptor George Grey Bernard, received the invalid into his studio and there he stayed for six months. Later he went to a hospital. At the end of a year, Sculptor Barnard took him back to the studio, where, last week, he died...
Many a famed U. S. educator has sat in the office which Dr. Cooper now occupies. The first was Henry Barnard whose fame in his native Connecticut equals that of Horace Mann in Massachusetts. Other onetime Education Commissioners are Dr. Elmer Brown, Chancellor of New York University; Dr. Philander Priestly Claxton, now Superintendent of Schools in Tulsa, Okla...
...Sculptor Barnard said he had roamed through museums for more than 15 years before he realized the meaning of the "Great Eye." He now recommends that students cultivate it by the direct study of originals. Reproductions and photographs lose the delicate, important values. Furthermore, stone should be the only material of Great Eyed sculpture. Bronze and clay, the more plastic media, do not lend themselves to final innuendos of light and shade...
George Bray Barnard, sculptor extraordinary, is famed for his Gothic cloister in uptown New York City, where medieval sculpture and ornament abound. His works are scattered worldwide, varying in subject from The Descent from the Cross in Paris, to The God Pan on Columbia University's campus. In London stands his gaunt Abraham Lincoln, focus of livid controversy, of which Theodore Roosevelt said: "I have always wished I might...