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Robert Gould Shaw Monument on Boston Common is Masterpiece of Augustus St. Gaudens, the Greatest Sculp
tor America Mas Produced, and for the Subject Portrayed a f orward Moving Body of Troops it is the Most
Impressive in the World.
It Is the masterpiece ot and mast »rs have bestowed upon it tuto; and lu also sets forth the terse
T ill 811 AW Mt:\10HIAI. IIOS I ON for the black soldiers on this Common
perhaps the greatest sculptor that
W illiam II Down 's, for exampl' in ness of the task which v.as set fot
IIY AUGUSTUS SAINT OAUDKNS panel.
America has yet produced, the late j l*is book. ' Twelve G reat A rtists.’ d - the sculptor, and how. after years of
Augustus Saint Oaudcu.s It was dedi- votes about two dozen pages to it
F r o m t h e hook “ F.tnnncipn KDITOH'S NOTF Tins c h a p t e r uhix . alcd on Decorat ion Day. 1807.
And yet. as to the main facts and devoted application, he rose grandly
I need not tell you |>erhaps that the ideas the Memorial needs no explana t. the occasion. Mr. Taft seldom uses
lio n a n d t h e F r e e d
in o r i gi na l l y part o f a p a p e r r e a d ax ¡eminent
represented is the 54*11 tion; and while it penults, it does the superlative In his descriptions but
a l e c t u r e h y t h e a ut ho r The v o i d
A m e r i c a n S c u l p t u r e , ” h y i n g wax r e p r o d u c e d f r o m t h e hooV. Massachusetts Volunteers, the first not really require, much in the wav he c o n w close to it In what I am
ieminent
of
colored troops raised in oi Interpretation
It largely speaks
u na t t e r e d
F r e e m a n H. M. M u r r a y .
the Free S tates during the Civil War 1 for itself if you study it in the properj about to quote, and later, when he
This masterpiece is. at once, a mem* spirit. Nevertheless, a few of the comes to discuss the motif of this
On the urtlKtlr side, lot It be sniil us anal to a man. a race, and a cause
many words that have beep written matchless work, he reaches both viv
Itodin, the French sculptor i« beginning. that t his pnitlcului There Is scarcely a lim it to what concerning it may be interestin ', at. i idness and the superlative. He says;
piece of sculpt tire Is gencially regard I roperly may be said concerning this helpful.
It Is onu of the most Impressive nuinu*
a nd gr eat es t mast« r of m o d «•cl us the Hurst work of art In Amen transcendent conception and its tin -1
ments oi nuvi '. i tim e: -o n e of the nuM e-*
I.iir.ido Taft
ern limes, took off his hat b e tu. mid for the subject nortrayed- mii passed execution If in American)
p.ccer. of the 19th century
There is noth-
body of troops it irt there be any work which has uni Mr. Lorado Taft, in the compre ’»*< like it or Miggr.scivc ot u in the en.;elo
fore the Sh aw monument . St. a forward-moving
the most Impressive In the woild* 'inquest toned right to be called in-I hensive work from which I have quot-j .*( ert.
( i a ud e ns w or k ed on relief I refer to the splendid and surpass plied, surely tills is it One could) ed very liberally, gives the history ot Th«1 scene Is evidently the departure of
sublime memorial to Colonel % ily stiend an hotu in repeating the man iitd the men and of the the colored troops, th* leader a w on-, tr.in
for twelve years. More than tngly
«*1 noWf ra*»n win» reco*m»es the 'i « m i -
Robert Oopld Shuw and hi- black ihe words of description of interpre-l M**clal events which it was purposed c»:»ce
d the fateful day (May 38. 18C3I.
sixty men served as models «cglmenl which stand'« on Union tat ion and of praise which writers liiat the memorial should commcmo- a nil head
sc*. Kftiare upon U.c broad shout-