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Home & Country May 1897
WITH THE ARTISTS.
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Geo. Grey Barnard, Sculptor.
FRAGMENT OF A NORWEGIAN STOVE.

WITH THE ARTISTS.
In these days of conventionality in art it is refreshing to turn to the works of George Grey Barnard, whose exhibition, held some months ago at the Logerot Garden, served to introduce to the New York public an American sculptor who, by his originality of conception and truthfulness of execution, has earned for himself a unique place in his art, for by casting all strictly modern precedent to the winds, this artist seems in many of his works to carry us back to the purity of the ancient Greeks, from whom much of his inspiration has undoubtedly been drawn. 
Mr. Barnard is certainly a "symbolist," but not of the character which produces the nightmares so frequently associated with that much abused term, for even if the full meaning of his subjects cannot be fully understood at first glance, by the average man, one cannot fail to admire the strength of modelling and the apparent ease with which he accomplishes his ends, and above all, the truthfulness and beauty of his subjects- a rate quality among the men usually referred to as "symbolists." Especially is this the case with the colossal marble group which the artist calls "I feel two natures struggling within me" and which portrays with marvellous energy the battlings with the inner man, typified by two 
heroic-sized nude figures, one of whom plants his foot upon the prostrate form of the other, who struggles manfully to free himself, and who, one unconsciously feels, will ultimately triumph. The plaster figure of "Pan" is also remarkable in a somewhat different manner, for here we find