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1882


MALE FIGURE WITH WINGS
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In a letter dated June 6, 1882, Samuel Clemens wrote a critique of one of Gerhardt's sculptures:

...while the male figure wings are spread for flight, the rest of him seems to have stopped to consider; I mean the rest of him does not betray action.**

 ST. SEBASTIAN
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In a letter dated June 14, 1882, Gerhardt wrote Clemens that he was working on a sculpture of St. Sebastian.

PANDORA
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In a letter dated November 2, 1882, Gerhardt wrote Clemens that he was working on a statue of Pandora and trying to capture the look on her face after she has dropped her box.

 ** Passages from previously unpublished letters: Copyright 2001 by Richard A. Watson and Chase Manhattan Bank as Trustees of the Mark Twain Foundation, which reserves all reproduction or dramatization rights in every medium. Quotation is made with the permission of the University of California Press and Robert H. Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Project.

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