William Wetmore Story 803071 223998328 2008-07-06T21:48:43Z Lifedraw2008 7432055 /* Selected writings */ [[Image:William Wetmore Story - Brady-Handy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|William Wetmore Story, circa 1865-1880.]] {{otherpeople2|William Story}} '''William Wetmore Story''' ([[February 12]], [[1819]] - [[October 7]], [[1895]]) was an [[United States|American]] sculptor, art critic, poet and editor. ==Biography== William Wetmore Story was the son of jurist [[Joseph Story]] and Sarah Waldo (Wetmore) Story, and graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1838 at the age of nineteen. He moved to Italy in 1856 after receiving a commission for completing a bust of his late father, which resides in the [[Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall]]. Story's home, in the [[Palazzo Barberini]], became a central location for Americans in [[Rome]]. His most famous work, ''[[Cleopatra]]'', ([[1858]]) was described and admired in [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s romance, ''[[The Marble Faun]]'', and is on display at the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]. Another work, the ''[[Angel of Grief]]'', has been replicated near the [[Stanford Mausoleum]] at [[Stanford University]]. Story submitted a design for the [[Washington Monument]], then under construction. Although the Washington National Monument Society concluded that his design seemed "vastly superior in artistic taste and beauty" to the obelisk already under construction, the obelisk continued to be built, and is what we see today as the monument. In addition, Story sculpted a bronze statue of [[Joseph Henry]] on the Mall in [[Washington, D.C.]], the scientist who served as the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s first Secretary. His "Libyan Sibyl" is on display at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Story is buried with his wife, Emelyn Story, in the [[Protestant Cemetery, Rome]], under a statue of his own design (''[[Angel of Grief]]''). His children also pursued artistic careers: [[Thomas Waldo Story]] ([[1855]]–[[1915]]) became a sculptor, [[Julian Russell Stor]]y ([[1857]]–[[1919]]) was a successful portrait painter, and [[Edith Marion]] ([[1844]]–[[1907]]), the [[Marchesa Peruzzi de' Medici]], became a writer. ==Selected works== *[[Joseph Henry]] Memorial, Washington D.C., [[1883]] *[[John Marshall]] Memorial,[[Washington D.C.]], [[1884]] * ''[[Angel of Grief]]'' *Statue of [[Joseph Story]], his father, in [[Harvard Law School]]'s [[Langdell Hall]] == Selected writings == * ''Conversations in a Studio'', Boston, 1890 * ''Excursions in Art and Letters'', Boston, 1891 *''Roba di Roma'', London, 1863 *"The Proportions of the Human Figure,: According to a New Canon, for Practical Use: With a Critical Notice of the Canon of Polycletus, and of the Principal Ancient and Modern Systems ", London, 1864 ==Images== <gallery> Image:JosephHenry-SmithsonianCastle-20050517.jpg|Joseph Henry Image:WWStory-Marshall.jpg|John Marshall Image:WWStoryRome.jpg|Angel of Grief </gallery> ==References== * Phillips, M., ''Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story, the American Sculptor and Author'', Chicago, 1897 * James, H., ''William Wetmore Story and his Friends'', 2 vols, London, 1903 * [http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Stor_W.htm], Thomas Waldo Story, 1855-1915 * [http://76.1911encyclopedia.org/S/ST/STORY_WILLIAM_WETMORE.htm], LoveToKnow * [http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/story_w_w.html] Strangers to Us All:Lawyers and Poetry ==External links== {{commons|Category:William Wetmore Story|William Wetmore Story}} {{wikiquote}} * {{gutenberg author| id=William+Wetmore+Story | name=William Wetmore Story}} * [http://www.sonnets.org/story.htm] William Wetmore Story, Poems {{DEFAULTSORT:Story, William Wetmore}} [[Category:American sculptors]] [[Category:American art critics]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:1819 births]] [[Category:1895 deaths]] {{sculptor-stub}}