ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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; “A BRONZE BRUNO FOR BROWN” 
Building the structure of wood upon which the Mr. Harvey at work on the enlarged model in 
mold for the bronze will be made. preparation for the bronze casting. 
Photographs by Mrs. Eli Harvey 
A BROWN-BEAR STATUE FOR BROWN 
UNIVERSITY 
‘‘Ivan,” the great Alaslcan Bear of the Zoological 
Parle, to he cast in Imperishable Bronze 
By Herbert B. Keen (1907)* 
Chairman of the “Bronze Bruno” Committee. 
T HIS idea of a bronze bear lias appealed so 
strongly to so many graduates that it was 
recognized in June, 1922, that some class 
was bound to make this gift sooner or later. So 
now we of the committee believe that the best 
way to do this inevitable thing is for all Brown 
men to make the gift together. 
The plan for a bronze bear for the grounds 
of Brown University was set going at Com¬ 
mencement, 1922, and about $800 in gifts and 
pledges were collected then, as related in the 
Brown Alumni Monthly for July. Since that 
time a general committee and an executive com¬ 
mittee have been formed to see this project 
through. 
‘Quoted matter —Providence Journal. 
The names of several sculptors were con¬ 
sidered by the committee, and after duly weigh¬ 
ing the special requirements for this piece of 
work, Eli Harvey, the well-known animal sculp¬ 
tor of New York City, received the unanimous 
vote of the committee. 
Mr. Harvey is a native American who made 
a serious study of animals under the distin¬ 
guished French sculptor Fremiet for a period 
of ten years. In France his work was exhibited 
in the Paris salons from 189-1 to 1901 and in 
the Paris Centennial Exposition of 1900. His 
animal sculptures have been exhibited at the 
American Expositions of Buffalo, St. Louis, 
Portland, Oregon and San Francisco. 
He is represented in sculpture in the per¬ 
manent collections of the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art, New York City; the St. Louis Art 
Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum and the 
Newark Library and Art Association. 
One of Mr. Harvey’s most important and 
spectacular commissions was for the four life 
size lions in marble that guard the doors of 
