The Salmagundi Club, being a history of its beginning as a sketch class, its public service as the Black and White Society, and its career as a club from 1871-1918, with illustrations [electronic resource] . groups as Lincoln striking thefetters from the slave, or Henry Ward Beecherand the slave girl, rudely suggested in tiny figuresof clay, cracked and covered with the dust ofyears, stood about on shelves and barrel heads orlay shattered on the floor. It was pathetic to seethe aged sculptor standing among the debris ofhis life-work, his hands that had wrought somuch shaking with palsy. There
The Salmagundi Club, being a history of its beginning as a sketch class, its public service as the Black and White Society, and its career as a club from 1871-1918, with illustrations [electronic resource] . groups as Lincoln striking thefetters from the slave, or Henry Ward Beecherand the slave girl, rudely suggested in tiny figuresof clay, cracked and covered with the dust ofyears, stood about on shelves and barrel heads orlay shattered on the floor. It was pathetic to seethe aged sculptor standing among the debris ofhis life-work, his hands that had wrought somuch shaking with palsy. There were more am-bitious works, intended to follow the groups,notably two equestrian statues, half life-size, ofSherman and Sheridan, which for years restedabove two of the cases in the library. On May 3, at the monthly meeting it is re-corded : The House Committee gave an account ofthe rental of New Quarters in 12th Street. Mr. Baker moved a vote of thanks to , the Site & Ex. Committees, and for services rendered in securing new quar-ters. Mr. Shurtleff was evidently the chairman ofthe committee and Mr. Thomas Craig may havecalled the attention of the committee to the --« m a 2 s9 s <*3 3* « J ~ s« s I 77 H Mr. Rogers wished to retire to his countryhouse at New Canaan, Connecticut, and thehouse, 14 West Twelfth Street, was secured bythe club at an annual rental of two thousanddollars. During the time of its prosperity the househad been remodeled for the exhibition and saleof the famous groups. The house then extendedas far back as the present wall of the upper stor-ies and included the tier of rooms below, nowdefined by the girder that crosses midway of thegrill-room. The studio stood sixteen feet back ofthe house. It was a brick structure covering theexact area of what was later the billiard-room,lighted by a glass roof and entered by a door atthe middle of its front. The wide section of thegrill-room had been the family kitchen, and un-der
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