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Mr. Weinman had been noted in
his profession for many years. In
deed, he was under most serious con
sideration by the committee which
awarded the commission for the
James W. Beardsley statue at the
entrance to our Beardsley park. His
sculpture is among the best that the
sculptors of America have produced
'How w-ell these artists have been
about their task, arch and bas re
lief testify. They will appeal to the
highest artistic sense, and each, I am
persuaded, will grow in public regard
the longer it endures. It is apt to
be thus, the generation of a later day
estimates more truly and higher the
really great work of today than do
those who live with it, be it in the
paths of government, statesmanship,
letters, or art.
Architecture and sculpture are al
lies in the arts. Finished skill, beau
tiful lines, fit proportion, producing
a work of truth and' beauty (born in
understanding, sympathy and imag
ination. That is art, that Is true ar
chitecture and true sculpture. And
this arch and this bas relief are the
blessed children of the hand, and head
and heart of artists who possess, these
qualities.
Yonder factory chimney and the
plant it ministers to are . the. mere
mechanism of architecture. The heart
of man did not throb in their design
ing, nor did beauty crown their build
ing. But arch and bas relief are dif
ferent. Into these have gone the skill
of rare art, the imagination of high
soul, and there ccmeth forth the
wonders of truth and -beauty.
