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Address of Paper Chicago Ill
Date Apr 11-97

A little more than twelve years since George Grey Barnard, a pupil of the Art Institute, left Chicago to study in Paris. Three years ago his colossal group, "I Feel Two Nature Struggling Within Me," was given a prominent place in the salon of the Champ de Mars, and he was elected an associate member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts. All Paris praised Mr. Barnard's work, and he was pronounced by eminent critics and his brother sculptors to be one of the coming men of the century. Itodin, the most virile, original and fascinating sculptor of modern times, openly praised the young American. Within a few months Mr. Barnard made an exhibition in New York, and his work received the highest ancomiums. He has, as well, been financially successful. His colossal group, "I Feel Two Natures Struggling Within Me," has been purchased by a denizen of New York and presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts. His "Pan," another colossal work, intended for the center of a fountain, is to be placed in Central Park. His conception of Pan is said to be a novel one: "Human, but of a curious Turanian type, to which, in the head, he has imparted a sheepish but not a lascivious look." Mr. Barnard will doubtless make an exhibition of his work in Chicago early in the autumn. 

Cutting from  TIMES.
Address of Paper DENVER, COL.
Date  APR-6 1897
CURRENT PERIODICALS.
The Century. 
Grant and the occasion of the dedication of his tomb at Riverside form the leading features of the Century for April. Castaigne has a remarkable drawing of the tomb as a frontispiece to number. It is the first illustration that has successfully portrayed the great beauty of the structure. An interesting letter, showing General Sherman's estimate of Grant, is contained in the number, also, together with some pages from Grant's last writings. Other features of the magazine are not so numerous as usual, but they are altogether interesting. Something concerning the new sculptor, George Grey Barnard, will interest artists or lovers of art. 

Cutting from  LEADER
Address of Paper  DES MOINES, IOWA.
Date  APR 11 1897
George Gray Barnard, whose recent work has attracted great attention on both sides of the water, and who is the subject of a leading article in the Century for April, and is called therein America's greatest sculptor, is also an ex-Iowa. 

ESTABLISHED: LONDON, 1851 NEW YORK, 1884. 

Cutting from  Sentinel
Address of Paper  Milwaukee, Wi
Date  May 23/97
"The Primitive Man" is the title of a group now being modelled by George Gray Barnard. This is the sculptor who was offered a commission to make then colossal figures for the library of congress. to be finished in ten months, and who refused the commission because he did not believe he could perform the work well in the given time. He is well known by his colossal figure of "Pan," which is soon to be case in bronze and erected in Central park, New York.