TitleWalter Elmer Schofield
Artist
Charles Grafly
(American, 1862 - 1929)
Date1905
MediumPlaster
DimensionsOverall: 23 1/4 × 11 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, April 2, 1906
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number39-S
Label TextGrafly and Schofield knew each other from the time they were both students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. A painter of Impressionistic landscapes, Schofield immigrated to England in 1901, and it seems likely that Grafly modeled his bust during one of Schofield's subsequent visits to America. It is one of many busts he did of fellow artists, all of which he evidently carved or cast with his own hands in order to assure the retention of essential detail. A cast of this bust, owned by the subject, was included in the huge National Sculpture Society show held in Baltimore in 1908; in the exhibition of Grafly's and Garber's work at the Saint Botolph Club, Boston, 1911; and in the 1930 memorial exhibition given Grafly by the Pennsylvania Academy. The Pennsylvania Academy has a bronze cast of the piece, and a plaster version is in the collection of the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas.
