PARK AND C E M E T E R 1'. 
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DELICATELY 
WROUGHT 
SCULPTURED 
CEMETERY 
MEMORIAL 
WIGGLESWORTH MEMORIAL, OAKNOOK CEMETERY, 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
J. Massey Rliind, Sc. 
Memorial monuments — perhaps especially in 
private grounds — call for such a delicate and 
restrained rendering of the subject, the human 
bereavement and the human hopefulness — for 
qualities which are so generally neglected in 
much of the contemporary modern art, that a 
work which fulfills these requirements is al- 
ways worthy of notice. One of these is J. 
Massey Rhind’s simple memorial of the wife of 
Henry Wigglesworth, Esq., in Oaknook Cem- 
etery, Syracuse, N. Y. A touching grace and 
charm characterize this quiet figure of the 
mother holding her nude baby on her arm ; in 
the beautiful, slightly bent, head the spectator 
may find a most delicate suggestion of the 
heavy trouble, the regret, of this parting. To 
support the figure, the architect, Mr. Alexan- 
der Macintosh, of New York, has furnished 
a shaft that is quite admirable in the beauty 
and justness of its scale and design — the mere 
beauty of just proportions unadorned. It is 
doubtful if sculpture, with its severity, its 
suggestion of eternal quietness, can find a 
more intimate, human appeal than in these 
delicately wrought memorials that so successfully 
combine good sculpture and architecture. 
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