CHARLES

See also:

• CHARLES GRAFLY (1862— )

GRAFLY (1862— )  , American sculptor, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 3rd of December 1862 . He was a pupil of the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and of Henri M . Chapu and Jean Dampt, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris . He received an Honorable Mention in the Paris Salon of 1891 for his " Mauvais Presage," now at the Detroit Museum of Fine Arts, a gold medal at the Paris Exposition, in 1900, and medals at Chicago, 1893, Atlanta, 1895, and Philadelphia (the gold Medal of Honor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), 1899 . In 1892 he became instructor in sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, also filling the same chair at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia . He was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1905 . His better-known works include: " General Reynolds," Fairmount Park, Philadelphia; " Fountain of Man " (made for the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo); " From Generation to Generation "; " Symbol of Life "; " Vulture of War," and many portrait busts .