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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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on to thisstatuary, and with almost uniform congratulations to the artist.Among others, Walter Cranston Larned made an exhaustive re-view of the merits and demerits of the art exhibits at the Expo-sition, paying attention to the decorations as well as to thosepieces brought to the Fair for display only. He tells us someinteresting facts in regard to the animal sculptures by Mr.Kemeys, which guard the bridges surrounding the Court ofHonor. They are remarkable indeed. Their fidelity to natureshows at once that the artist must have loved such sub-jects, and must also have had exceptional opportunities to FINE ARTS. 381 Study them. The great artist, Barye, was forced to study hisanimal forms in menageries because he had not the means to goto the desert or jungle in search of his lions and tigers. Hemastered their forms in the cao^es at the Zooloorical Gardens ofParis while they were living, and, when one chanced to die, wordwas sent directly to him, and the sculptor mastered their anatomy
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MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM. By Wm. O. Partridge by dissection, and the most careful measurements and comparisonone with another. The forest of Fontainebleau helped him withhis backorrounds because his artistic mind could find either adesert or a jungle there. The great Frenchman had the advantageof study in that greatest school of art at Paris, though he did not 382 FINE ARTS. follow its traditions in animal sculpture or painting. Nevertheless,he gained a certain finish there that our American artist lacks,while the latter, on the other hand, has a certain perfect naturalness

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