Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



The sculpture exhibit installed by a special committee of 

 the Section of Art is to be on view in the museum until Octo- 

 ber 1. This, we believe, is the first general exhibit of modern 

 sculpture ever shown on Staten Island, so that not only is it an 

 innovation, but it is also a rare opportunity for Staten Islanders 

 to see here, at home, the works of many of our greatest sculptors. 

 We feel that it is not out of place to imitate the New York Com- 

 mon Council of 1820, when a large painting was shown in the 

 city, and the Council passed a resolution urging the public " to 

 avail themselves of an opportunity to improve their taste." 



Where all is of such great excellence and many are mas- 

 terpieces, it would be unwise to single out individual pieces for 

 praise. Any exhibition of sculpture would be interesting if it 

 contained the work of any one of the eight or ten great sculp- 

 tors whose work is shown at this exhibition, and the excellence 

 of the whole exhibit is vouched for by the list of exhibitors 

 appended. 



The committtee has succeeded in giving great variety to 

 the exhibition and making it one that can be enjoyed by old 

 and young alike. There are portrait statues of two of our 

 greatest Americans, Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain, and 

 several ideal figures, while the children will find charming bronze 

 animals, both wild and domestic. We may add for the benefit 

 of the young people that they are to examine these pieces as 

 though they were alive, and judge of their excellence by their 

 own experiences. They have all seen dogs, cats, horses and 

 cows, and other animals in the " zoo," and if these pieces are 

 examined carefully, it can easily be seen that the bronze animals 

 are " alive." 



A full list of exhibitors and subjects is as follows: Portrait 

 Head, C. G. Kolff, Horse, Study for Fountain, Hound Dogs, Mrs. 

 Wm. Knauth ; Kangaroo, Miss Law son ; Nymph and Pan, Mother 

 and Child, The Mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Sturtevant Bliss; Bear 

 and Tiger, Fox, Bear Cubs, Bear and Cubs, E. W. Deming ; 

 Portrait Head, Panama Medals, Robert Aitkin; Playfulness, 

 Lassitude, Paul Manship ; Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, John 

 Gelert ; The Barry Medals, Vanity, John J. Boyle ; Portrait Head, 

 Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney ; Torso, Alice Morgan Wright ; 

 Puppy Dogs, Horse, Laura Gardin ; The Debutante, Herbert 

 Adams; Stork, Eugenie Shannard ; Panther, Miss Hyatt; Fawn, 

 Stalking Panther, Bison, A. Phinster Proctor ; Nathan Hale, 

 Frederick MacMonnies ; Diogenes, George Bissell ; Child's Head, 

 Portrait Bas Reliefs, B. Bufano; Elephant, Eulalie A. Pardee; 

 Augustus St. Gaudens, George Breivster ; Abraham Lincoln, 

 Study of a Head, Daniel Chester French ; The Sun Vow, Indian 

 Dancer, Hermon MacNeill ; A Breezy Day, Mrs. Hermon Mac- 

 Neill; Three small pieces, Nicolo Tocco ; Portrait Bust, Mr. Fra- 

 zier; Abraham Lincoln, Victor D. Brennan. 



J. Q. A. 



