Augustus Saint-Gaudens . to have something to say, to make his art interestingas well as effective in pure form. ** Interesting is emphatically the word, denoting a virtue which embracesa multitude of things and belongs in the foreground, es^pecially where public monuments are concerned. Werightly praise an artist for working with no thought ofanything save the task in hand; we despise him if he plays to the gallery. Yet it is transcendently import^ant that the portrait in bronze or marble of a nationalhero should speak in unmistakable terms alike to theconnoisseur and to the quite uninstructe
Augustus Saint-Gaudens . to have something to say, to make his art interestingas well as effective in pure form. ** Interesting is emphatically the word, denoting a virtue which embracesa multitude of things and belongs in the foreground, es^pecially where public monuments are concerned. Werightly praise an artist for working with no thought ofanything save the task in hand; we despise him if he plays to the gallery. Yet it is transcendently import^ant that the portrait in bronze or marble of a nationalhero should speak in unmistakable terms alike to theconnoisseur and to the quite uninstructed man. A char^acter must be humanly realized, made to live upon itspedestal so that the heart of the patriot as well as themind of the dilettante may be touched. There is nothought here of making a vulgar concession to the mob;there is thought only of the sympathy, the emotion, bywhich the greatest men of genius in all ages have been68 DR. JAMES McCOSH This memorial to the President of Princeton was erectedthere in ^ . - CQLLEC DOC-CLXX)lVHl^ IXX-l>v-
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