Herbert Adams

Herbert Adams was born in Vermont in 1858.  He has had many advantages, not the least of which were the five years spent in Paris.  While there he did the beautiful bust of Adelaide Pond, who afterwards became his wife.  In 1890 he returned to America, becoming instructor in the Art School of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.  He has done a number of works for the Congressional Library, the Vanderbilt bronze doors of the St. Bartholomew Church of New York, the tympan of the Madonna and Child in the same church, a statue of William Ellery Channing and many others.  His beautiful busts of women are said to be unsurpassed even in France.

Edward Berge

Edward Berge was born at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1874.  He was admitted quite early in life to the Maryland Institute of Art, and the Rhinehart School of Sculpture of Baltimore, following this instruction by the usual finishing-off at Paris.  He had the good fortune while in Paris to study under the great Rodin.  He won bronze medals at both the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 and the St. Louis Exposition of 1904.  His many very interesting fountain figures seen at the Panama, Pacific International Exposition have won deserved praise from the many who have seen them.

Solon Borglum

Solon Borglum was born in 1868 at Ogden, Utah.  The greater part of his early life was spent on the plains of Nebraska, lassoing wild horses and photographing at the same time every detail of this strange life upon his brain.  He spent a short time in California, where he began his life as an artist.  Realizing his limitations, he went to the Cincinnati Art School, where he studied some time under Rebisso.  It was while here that he spent all of his spare time on the anatomy of the horse.  The time soon arrived for a sojourn in Paris.  His “Little Horse in the Wind” excited pronounced attention at the Salon that first year abroad and honors were bestowed upon him as long as he remained in Paris.  He has given the Indian the greatest attention, and is one of the best sculptors of the red man in the United States.  He has but one group in the Fine Arts Palace — “Washington.”

Edith Woodman Burroughs

One of the chief women sculptors of the United States is Edith Woodman Burroughs, born at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, in 1871.  She was a pupil at the New York Art Students’ League under Augustus Saint-Gaudens, later studying in Paris with Injalbert and Merson.  In 1893 she was married to Bryson Burroughs, a New York artist.  She has made a specialty of fountain sculpture.  No one who has ever seen her Fountain of Youth at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition can forget it.  It will always be a source of regret that the appropriation for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition sculpture was reduced, thus preventing the public from seeing the speaking, simple groups of “Arabian Nights Entertainments.”  Mrs. Burroughs is represented at the Metropolitan Museum of New York by “John La Farge,” a remarkably interesting portrait head, full of character.  She has the power of speaking her language in a few words — but just the right ones.