The Mentor: Famous American Sculptors, Vol. 1, Num. 36, Serial No. 36

The essay traces the rapid emergence of American sculpture from tentative, imitative beginnings to confident maturity, noting early Italian models and a later shift toward French training; it profiles leading sculptors, highlighting their representative public monuments, portraiture, memorials, medallions, and sculptural types, and compares their stylistic approaches—heroic realism, decorative relief, and poetic allegory—while describing signature works and the qualities that distinguish each sculptor, such as composure, individual intelligence, and original decorative invention.