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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is studio brokedown and a few weeks waiting for it to berepaired gave him some forced leisure, hedetermined to enter a much more importantcontest of which he had just heard, namely,the Grant Memorial in W^ashington. In thishe associated himself with Edward PearceCasey, who designed the pedestal. It was a Herculean task for so inexperi-enced a youth—one wholly self-taught—toundertake; a daring venture in view of theprominence of the judges—McKim, Saint(laudens, and French—and in view of the na-tional appeal that the monument must make. II In order to obtain some information atfirst hand in regard to the aims and methodsof the sculptor, we visited Mr. Shrady athis studio in Westchester County. , The country of Westchester is particu-larly concrete; it is so made up of little hillsand valleys, streams and lakes, that it looksas though the Creator had fashioned it toteach physical geography to children. Allthe Primary Highlands, the Secondary. THE GRANT MEMORIAL AT ffASHINGTON 639
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Q, Harris * Ewiog. WathinctoQ, D. ( ARTILLERY CHARGE, DURING THE CIVIL WAR(From the artillerj- group now in place on the Grant Memorial. A very animated group—full of weight—theposea are unconventional. Mr. Shraays years of service as Captain in the Artillery enabled hint tu make his scene•eem like a page from history, not merely an artists dream) Highlands, and Great Central Plainsknown to text books are to be seen on asmall scale, as one sees in miniature on themirror e>epiece of a telescope, no larger thana half-dollar, the craters and -mountains ofthe moon. One could not help but feel that this spot,where all of natures characteristics areepitomized in a single square mile, was theideal place for the work-shop of the sculptorwho purpfjsed to epitomi/.e the whole offirants career in a single monument 265feet long. Here, on a hilltop back of his residence,part of which is over 2f)0 years old, wefound Mr. Shradys studio; and knowingof his self-reliance, we are not much s\ir-

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