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rVETZRANSCULPTOR’S BIRTHDAYReception To-day in Honor of JamesWilson Alexander Macdonald.is 'and another statue larger Wan 1if*ien.‘ Nathaniel Lyon. Portr itury hason tvThgoldw h iA number of the friends of James Wilson Alexander Macdonald, the sculptor, , havebeen invited to a reception* to-day in’ hishonor. He is eighty, years old and can look back on sixty years of an industrious and well-spent career in his chosen profession.Mr. Macdonald has seen the rise and Mil of the “ Italian colony ” of American sculptors who flourished at a time when people interested in art followed the old British precedent of a trip to Italy. It was he who obtained a cast of the fine bust of George Washington by Houdin, which has been reproduced in bronze by the Henry Bonnard Bronze foundry of N■ w Ye I.lie has lived to see sculpture flourish inthe United States as never'before, to s. ••the foundation of the National Sculpture Society and show- his works at exhibitionof that society where sculpture, in conjunction with architecture and formal gardenwork was for the first time in my ■ unitpin red before the public by itself in a dignified setting. •.. 'Like John Quinev. A Yun.1, this veteran sculptor is a nati\lt;- of Ohio, having beenborn at Steubenville, Ohio. Aug. -•. isiwHis earliest'work was done while in business life at St. Louis. Mo. In 1ST»4 his bust of Thomas H. Benton brought him into public- notice and he followed up this first success with ideal statues of Joan of x\rc and.“ Italia ” before coming to settle in NewYork He is the author of the s« a-ted bronzestatue of Fitz-Greehe Hhlleek in *'entrdPark of a c dossal bust of Washington mgroo Mist the . Thto tlLoubeen ' ids ‘chief‘‘relianVe-busts of t ’harlesO’Conor. “Prince” John Van Burlt;m William Cullen Bryant. Peter Cooper, ThurUw \Veed and others— but he has. also, trr 1 painting in oils, portraits and lav • ba«s-reliefs and ideal sculptures, wh.le laslive! v tempera m-nt b is '• ■- - ’ ■into critic sms with the p.-n whrnin -■ me. of his contemporaries and certain modern movements in art have received causticmention.SwillLmr withProspect Park, Brooklyn: a colossal bronzestatue of Kuwafd Bat* - in F • t- 1' i 1 I » .r m*- .“V -- - S’ I lt;1 * « % T111 ebersi n g(Ilichin*our; 1m |■ d O Xmot:bisFat!InFobHoi5vnnJ c w•’•d*1 *. . * III .1 I*'..1 .ried•* ^ Ion 1 ed 1 A i dsonpr* :GraTidaiitiegupasbreoil,sec'meithefanwh
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Thu, Aug 25, 1904
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