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lie has torn from its support. The contrast between the sav- 

 age character of the beast, arid his absurdly peaceful employ- 

 ment gives a touch of terrific comedy to this design. After 

 Btu&yrng these figures, oue cannot help thinking what a 

 noble embellishment either of them would be, put in bronze, 

 of colossal size, in the public grounds of one of our great 

 Western cities. And inasmuch as the rich citizens of the 

 West not only know what a grizzly bear is, but are more 

 fearless and independent, and therefore often more correct 

 in their artistic opinions, than the somewhat sophisticated 

 critics of the East, there is some cause for hoping that this 

 thing may be brought to pass. 



"Beside the grizzly stands the mountain sheep oreimarron 

 the most difficult to capture of all four-footed animals, whose 

 gigantic curved horns are the best trophy of skill and enter- 

 prise that a hunter can bring home with him; The sculptor 

 has here caught him in one of his most characteristic atti- 

 tudes— iust alighted from some dizzy leap ou the headlong 

 slope of a rocky mountain side. On such a spot nothing 

 but the eimaxron could retain its footing; yet there he stands 

 firm and secure as the rock itself, his fore feet planted close 

 together, the fore legs rigid and straight as the shaft of a 

 lance, while the hind legs pose easily in attendance upon 

 them. 'The cimarrou always strikes plumb center, and he 

 never makes a mistake,' is Mr. Kemeys's. laconic comment; 

 and we can recognize the truth of the observation in this image. 

 Perfectly at home and comfortable on its almost impossible 

 perch, the cimarron curves its great neck and turns its head 

 upward, gazing aloft toward the height whence it h 

 scended. 'It's the golden eagle he hears,' says the sculptor; 

 'they give him warning of danger.' It is a magnificent 

 animal, a model of tireless vigor in all its parts; a creature 

 made to hurl itself head foremost down appalling gulfs of 

 space, and poise itself at the bottom as jauntily as if gravita- 

 tion were but a bugbear of timid imaginations. I find my- 

 self unconsciously speaking about these plaster models as if 

 they w ere the. living animals which they represent; but the 



more one studies Mr. Kemeys's works, the more instinct with 

 redundant and breathing life do they appear. 



"It would be impossible even to catalogue the contents of 

 this studio, the greater part of- which are as well worth 

 describing as those which have already been touched upon; 

 nor could a more graphic pen than mine convey an adequate 

 impression of their excellence. But there is here a figure of 

 the 'coon, which, as it is the only one ever modeled, ought 

 not to be passed over in silence, in appearance this animal 

 is a curious medley of the fox, the wolf, and the bear, 

 besides T-know-not-what (as the lady in 'Punch' would say) 

 that belongs to noue of those beasts. As may be imagined, 

 therefore, its right portrayal involves peculiar difficulties, 

 and Mr. Kemeys's genius is nowhere better shown than in the 

 manner in which these have been surmounted. Compact, 

 plump, and active in figure, quick and subtle in its move- 

 ments, the 'coon crouches in a flattened position along the 

 limb of a tree, its broad, shallow head and pointed snout a 

 little lifted, as it gazes alertly outward and downward. It 

 sustains itself by the clutch of its slender-clawed toes on the 

 branch, the fore legs being spread apart, while the left hind 

 leg is withdrawn inward and enters smoothly mto the con- 

 tour of the furred side; the bushy, fox-like tail, ringed with 

 dark and light bands, curving to the left. Thus posed and 

 modeled in high relief on a tile-shaped plaque, Mr. Kemeys's 

 'coon forms a most desirable' ornament for some wise man's 

 sideboard or mantel-piece, where it may one day be pointed 

 out as the only surviving representative of its species. 



"The two most elaborate groups here have already attained 

 some measure of publicity; the 'Bison and Wolves' having 

 been exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1878, and the 'Deer and 

 Panther' having been purchased in bronze by Mr. Winans 

 during the sculptor's sojourn in England. Each group rep- 

 resents one of those deadly combats between wild beasts 

 which are among the most terrific and at the same time most 

 natural incidents of animal existence; and they are of espe- 

 cial interest as showing the artist's power of concentrated 



and graphic composition. A complicated story is told in 

 both these instances with a masterly economy of material 

 and balance of proportion; so that the spectator's eye 

 takes in the whole subject at a glance, and yet finds inex- 

 haustible interest in the examination of details, all of which 

 contribute to the central effect without distracting the atten- 

 tion. A companion piece to the 'Deer and Panther' shows 

 the same animals as they have fallen, locked together in 

 death, after the combat is over. In the former group, the 

 panther, in springing upon the deer, had impaled its neck on 

 the deer's right antler, and had then swung round under the 

 latter's body, burying the claws of its right fore foot in the 

 ruminant's throat. In order truth fully to represent the sec- 

 ond stage of the encounter, therefore, it was necessary not 

 merely to model a second group, but to retain the elements 

 and construction of the first group under totally changed 

 conditions. This is a feat of such peculiar difficulty that I 

 think few artists in any branch of art would venture to at- 

 tempt it; nevertheless, Mr. Eeraeys has accomplished it: 

 and the more the two groups arc studied in connection with 

 each other the more complete will his success be found to 

 have been. The man who can do this may surely be ad- 

 mitted a master, whose works are open only to affirmative 

 criticism. For his works the most trying of all tests is their 

 comparison with one another; and the result of such com- 

 parison is not merely to confirm their merit, but to illustrate 

 and enhance it." 



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