THE AM ERIC AN-SC AN DIN AVIAN REVIEW 
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Paul Fjelcle Sculptor Paul Fjelde Sculptor 
Portrait of Mrs. O. J. Vea Portrait of Miss Olga Hoff 
stick. Compared with Thomas Gould’s “The West Wind,” the 
Fjelde boy’s “Voices of the Winds,” as he labeled his production, is 
distinctly superior as to artistic conception, execution, and poetic 
thought. This plaque shows a number of graceful figures swaying, 
floating, falling; but dominant among them is the forceful elementary 
embodiment of the North Wind. The plaque now lies broken in a 
Minneapolis attic, but it deserves a better fate and will, we trust, even¬ 
tually be restored by its maker. 
There lies before me as I write, a number of photographs from 
Paul Fjelde’s most important works. They are largely portraits, in 
which the sculptor with rare felicity has reproduced not only the phys¬ 
ical likeness of the original, but the soul and the mind of each. Take, 
for instance, little four-year-old “James,” the dearest little fellow, fea¬ 
tures, expression, pose truly childlike and characteristic. And not the 
least interesting fact about this is that Paul Fjelde was not eighteen 
years old when he made it. The portraits of “Olga” and her grand¬ 
mother also are noteworthy in this collection, which further includes 
the bust of Abraham Lincoln that forms the crowning part of the 
Lincoln monument presented in 1914 by North Dakota Americans of 
