"... Famous A lists in 'Zoo' Studio. The little band of artists at the park changes from year to year, but all our famous painters and sculptors who have introduced animals into their works have been members of this morning class. It is at Central Park that Mr. F. S. Church has made almost all his studies for those wonderful imaginative creations, those fantastic groupings of beautiful maidens and savage beasts, that have made his name renowned ... But among all that have thus studied animal life the name of F. S. Church stands out most prominently. His has been a devotion not of seasons, but of twenty long, untiring years. To be sure, he disclaims being an animal painter, the beasts in his pictures being accessory to the central figures; but so are his wonderful landscapes. When W. A. Conkling was director of the menagerie Mr. Church frequently borrowed the key of the lion house and sat there alone with the animals throughout the long night, in the light of a single gas jet. It was an experience in many ways invaluable to the student. There was always movement somewhere in the long lines of cages. The beasts of the forest do not know a night of untroubled rest, even in captivity. At present Mr. Church is sketching the leopard for his latest picture, 'Ariadne,' a decoration for the yacht of that name ..." ["The New York Herald" (NY), Sunday, May 25, 1902, Fifth Section, p. 16]
"... Famous A lists in 'Zoo' Studio. The little band of artists at the park changes from year to year, but all our famous painters and sculptors who have introduced animals into their works have been members of this morning class. It is at Central Park that Mr. F. S. Church has made almost all his studies for those wonderful imaginative creations, those fantastic groupings of beautiful maidens and savage beasts, that have made his name renowned ... But among all that have thus studied animal life the name of F. S. Church stands out most prominently. His has been a devotion not of seasons, but of twenty long, untiring years. To be sure, he disclaims being an animal painter, the beasts in his pictures being accessory to the central figures; but so are his wonderful landscapes. When W. A. Conkling was director of the menagerie Mr. Church frequently borrowed the key of the lion house and sat there alone with the animals throughout the long night, in the light of a single gas jet. It was an experience in many ways invaluable to the student. There was always movement somewhere in the long lines of cages. The beasts of the forest do not know a night of untroubled rest, even in captivity. At present Mr. Church is sketching the leopard for his latest picture, 'Ariadne,' a decoration for the yacht of that name ..." ["The New York Herald" (NY), Sunday, May 25, 1902, Fifth Section, p. 16]
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