Daniel Chester French

Since the passing of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French has been regarded by many as standing at the head of American sculpture.  He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1850.  After having one year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he studied with Doctor Rimnier of Boston, the first teacher of art anatomy in the United States.  Later he studied with Thomas Ball of Florence, Italy, and a short time in Paris.  He has been practically his own instructor.  His work is of the noblest type.  It is anatomically correct, of a high intellectual order, perfect technique and of fine imagery.  His first important work was “The Minute Man” of Concord, Massachusetts.  Among his many works are “Death and the Sculptor,” “The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial,” the head of “Emerson” (which caused Emerson to say, “This is the head I shave"), “The Milmore Memorial,” “The Alma Mater of Columbia College,” and finest of all, the wonderful “Mourning Victory” in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord.  His memorials are of high spiritual import.

Sherry E. Fry

Sherry E. Fry was born in Iowa in 1879.  He has been most fortunate in having the best instruction, having studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Julian Academy and the Beaux Arts of Paris, a year in Florence, and later with McMonnies, Barrias, Verlet and Lorado Taft.  He has traveled extensively, so has had the opportunity of seeing the best that the world holds for the artist.  He won the National Roman Prize in 1908 and held it for three years.  He has been a careful student of the Indians.  His work at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is distinctly graceful and decorative.

Albert Jaegers

Albert Jaegers, a man who has taught himself his art, having fine powers of observation and much invention, was born at Elberfeld, Germany, in 1868.  He has been an indefatigable worker, holding his art above all else.  Solving technical problems by himself, studying the world around him with an intense love in all his undertakings, Albert Jaegers has come to be a power among his fellows.  He has exhibited at several Expositions, has done considerable municipal work — the finest figure probably being his “Baron Steuben,” of Washington — and many fine portraits.  His “Uncle Joe Cannon” in the Fine Arts Palace, shows his power as a portraitist.  His work has brought him decorations from the German Emperor.

Isidore Konti