. International studio. n is one of the fewmen who know all about thetechnique of medal says: I considerhim the leading medalist ofAmerica, an artist of high rank and a craftsman ofinfinite sincerity and devotion to his work. Flanagan discovered his talent early and afterhaving studied in the night classes at CooperUnion he was admitted as a student in the studioof St. Gaudens and also to the Art StudentsLeague, where he studied under George de ForestBrush. For twelve years he worked in Paris,studying under Chapu, in the Academy Colorossi,the Atelier Falguiere and the Ecole d
. International studio. n is one of the fewmen who know all about thetechnique of medal says: I considerhim the leading medalist ofAmerica, an artist of high rank and a craftsman ofinfinite sincerity and devotion to his work. Flanagan discovered his talent early and afterhaving studied in the night classes at CooperUnion he was admitted as a student in the studioof St. Gaudens and also to the Art StudentsLeague, where he studied under George de ForestBrush. For twelve years he worked in Paris,studying under Chapu, in the Academy Colorossi,the Atelier Falguiere and the Ecole des BeauxArts, winning many medals and prizes for hisworks. It was during his student life in Paris thathe assisted MacMonnies in the great ColumbianFountain for the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893. Here we shall consider only one phase of thesculptures of John Flanagan, namely his medals famous among the populace, but is highly esteemed and placquettes, for it is by his masterpieces of bas one jour teen APRIL 1922 inceRHArj. PORTRAIT OF PHOEBE APPERSON HEARSTBY JOHN FLANAGAN relief that the artist is best known. Undoubtedlyhe is capable of achieving monumental works, buthis mastery of low relief has made him so popularin that particular class of sculpture that he hashad little time for anything else. Flanagan is not tied down to any of the canonsof the past, and is equally uninfluenced by any ofthe isms of the passing hour. Plastic fads andfancies have no lure for him. On the contrary hisworks are the absolutely individual expression ofan intensely sensitive and thoroughly sincereartist who goes his own way as a sculptor in pur-suit of his own artistic ideals. Feeling deeply thejoy and the beauty of the world and of the life thatanimates it, he endeavors to express it is a realist, but not of that school of realistswhich hunts for the gross and the hideous in orderto idealize ugliness. His works betray no sym-pathy for that form of realism which exalts withaffectatio
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