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A memoir, together with the printed writings of the sculptor, and a range from his letters with thirty-eight illustrations, such as images of his sculpture, and 4 snap shots by way of Walter Benington, and various reproductions of drawings.
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His class in modeling met two evenings a week; for this he was paid $40 a month. The subjects taught in the school were drawing and painting from the antique and live nude, modeling, perspective, ornamental designing, and artistic anatomy. A staff of eight instructors taught about three hundred students. The principal teachers of drawing and painting were Oliver Dennet Grover and John Henry Vanderpoel. Artistic anatomy was taught by William M. R. French, the director. In addition, the school offered an active program for children on Saturday mornings with a number of instructors.
Some of these pieces would be shipped back to Chicago, but many were destroyed. He was immediately in touch with his friends. John Boyle and Robert Bringhurst (and their families) were both back in Paris when he arrived, but soon departed for America. The Newells and the Greigs from the Protestant McAll Mission, where Lorado had socialized and taught Sunday School in his student days, welcomed him back warmly. ” His French friends Margerie and Savine entertained him and admired the photograph of Carrie he exhibited to them.
16 Taft’s young assistants appear in two old photographs of the State Street studio from the early 1890s. In one of them, Bracken stands behind a worktable in front of a Civil War relief. In the other, the young men are shown in active poses around the upper part of the model of a sailor that was in the process of being completed for a monument in Winchester, Indiana. Charlie Mulligan looks up from his work chipping a large block of marble; Charlie Pillars gazes aloft at the developing statue of a youthful sailor, which has been given a shirt and an umbrella.