Name/Title
Letter from Clarence Addison ShalerDescription
Letter from Clarence Addison Shaler to unknown. Tells about buying "The End of the Trail." Letter is dated March 16, year unknown. These letters are carbon copies in poor condition, one on onion skin, the other two pages on poor paper.
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Castle Green,
Pasadena, Calif. March 16
I hope I am sending you the information which you wish, as it is about all that I have at hand.
"The End Of The Trail" which I propose giving to the city of Waupun was first shown in San Francisco in 1914 (note: The Panama Pacific Exposition was in 1915) at the Panama Pacific Exposition and was one of the outstanding decorations or pieces of sculpture of that mighty display of magnificent sculpture and made the name of Mr. James Earle Fraser the sculptor famous not only through out the United States but through out the world. The figure which Mr. Fraser will model for the city of waupun will be 12 feet high from the bottom of the horses hoof to the shoulder of the Indian. This figure will be cast in bronze and mounted on a stone base 2 feet thick all to be mounted on a mound of earth representing the burial mounds of the Indian, so many of which we have around our Wisconsin lakes. The proposed site is on the dam adjoining our Forest Mound Cemetary (sp) near to where the water pours over the dam. At night I propose lighting the figure with a search light so that the rider and horse only will be pictured against the sky, giving an effect of the figure standing up in the air along; without visible support. The monument will not be delivered until the summer of 1927, (note: the statue was delivered in 1929) it taking that amount of time for the sculptor to complete the work.
Among the many things of note Mr. Fraser has designed are the Harriman Fountain at Arden, N. Y., the figure of Bishop Potter in the Cathedral of St John the Divine, the relief of the Harry Payne Whitney children, John Hay Memorial, Cleveland, 0, The Journey Through Life, in Rock Creek Cemetary (sp), Wash. Alexander Hamilton, before the Treasury building, Wash. The Ericsson Monument, Wash. A war memorial for the Bank of Montreal, A war memorial for Winnipeg, Can. He has also added over forty portraits to our countrys (sp) artistic wealth. He designed the nickel 5 cent piece with the Indian head and buffalo (1919) and many more statues and memorials of which I do not have the description at hand.
Note: Additional text in the 2009.0401.0040-02 and -03 letters; [Will you please send 12 copies of the paper to me with bill fo same. I enclose a cut which I will ask you to take to Mr. Faber at the factory and ask him to have at least two photo gravures made of either it or the large picture which I sent Mr. Jones if you wish to use an illustration in the article. Mr. Faber will charge the expense of cuts to my account.]
Very sincerely yours,
C. A. Shaler.Acquisition
Accession
2009.0401Source or Donor
Waupun Historical SocietyAcquisition Method
Bequest,Collected by
