Edited by John C. Van Dyke THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SCULPTURE BY LORADO TAFT MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE PHOTOGRAVURES AND ONE HUN- DRED AND FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1903 All rights reserved EDITOR'S NOTE THIS series of books brings together for the first time the materials for a history of American Art. Heretofore there have been attempts to narrate some special period or feature of our artistic development, but the narrative has never been consecutive or conclusive. The present volumes begin with the founding of the nation, and carry the record down to the year 1904. They are intended to cover the graphic, the plastic, the illustrative, the architectural, the musical, and the dramatic arts, and to sum up the results in each department historically and critically. That the critical summary should be authoritative, the preparation of each volume has been placed in the hands of an expert — one who practises the craft whereof he writes. The series is therefore a history of American Art written from the artist's point of view, and should have special value for that reason. The "History of American Sculpture" is the initial volume of the series. The writer of it makes acknowledgment for help received from many sources; but the editor of the series thinks it proper to say that the great bulk of the volume is original material gathered at first hand and here presented for the first time. |