Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1885 — Sculpture as a Profession. [ARTICLE]

Sculpture as a Profession.

It takes years of study and applies-, tion before success crowns the sculptor’s efforts, but when it does, wealth pours in upon him by the thousands. His fame is made perhaps by one statue, and orders come in for four or five more whiclj will probably consume that many years in finishing. Probably not a single statue will cost under $’20,000. A salary of $30,000 a year is very large; it is a fortune to commence with almost. An unsuccessful sculptor perhaps wifi not make that sum during his life. Unsuccessful sculptors are few. If they do not succeed after several years,, they drop out and follow some other profession more fitted to their talent. American sculptors are perhaps more famous than American painters, and |heir work's more appreciated in Italy and France.—A r eio York Mail and Express. . ! ” I. Xatvrf never makes-men who are at once "energetically sympathetic and minutely calculating.— George Eliot.