Property from the Collection of Eleanor Sandy West, Ossabaw Island, Georgia Carl Milles (Sweden/Michigan, 1875-1955), Untitled, Plaster Maquette and Signed Book, the sculpture unsigned, now on a later wood stand. Together with a Carl Milles an Interpretation of His Work by Meyric R. Rogers, The Art Institute of Chicago, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1940, inscribed by Milles, 'To My Dear Friend "Tex" from Carl, Dec. 1940' with Pete Schiwetz and OIP stamp. According to the family history the sculpture was called Orpheus and Carl Milles went to the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where Clifford West was a teacher. 'Born in Uppsala, Sweden, Carl Milles, whose original surname was Anderson, was a sculptor in the classical style of figures and monuments and was a long-time professor of sculpture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He first studied sculpture at the Technical School in Stockholm, and then attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris and worked in Rodin's sculpture atelier. Before coming to America in 1929, he was "recognized as Sweden's leading sculptor" and was also a professor of modeling at the Royal Academy of Stockholm. He did over a hundred public works, mostly in bronze and received many honors including the French Legion of Honor and many honorary doctorates from American and European universities. One of his pieces, Man and Nature, was installed in 1937 in New York City at One Rockefeller Center in the main lobby. Other venues for installed works by Milles are the City Hall of St. Paul, Minnesota; fountains in St. Louis and Chicago; and a monument in Wilmington, Delaware. In the 1950s, he returned to Sweden and established the Milles Gardens as a museum for his own work.' (from askArt.com)