Model

Five feet ten inches he stands in his naked feet. Normal, his chest stretches the tape 44 inches; expanded, 49. Waist 31, thigh 24, calf 16 1/2, ankle 8, neck 18, biceps 16 1/2, reach 74--complete his description, except for the ineffable, the ineluctable, the sublime beauty of his face. His name is William Wright of Dustan Corner, Me. His nameless face and figure are in the marble, the bronze, the oils of Barnard, MacMonnies, Manship, Sargent.

Last week George Grey Barnard, famed U. S. sculptor, reported that the perfect man from Maine had come to town. Sculptor Barnard besought him to sit for his new heroic "Democracy" to be erected on the Fort Washington peninsula, but received for answer:

"Can't do it. Have to look after my Guernseys, my Rhode Island Reds. My best cow is third in Maine for butter fat. My eggs get record prices. Can't do it."

Then Sculptor Barnard confided to the public:

"I have seen and studied the best models in this country and abroad, but none of them has possessed the perfection of sculpturesque beauty found in William Wright.

"The great Greek sculptor Phidias, whose statues have never been equaled for sublimity of form, would have found in this young American a perfect model.

"If Wright had been available, Michelangelo, who sought the ideal human form for his great works of

The scarcity of good models is one of the many difficulties in art, which the public rarely considers.