 Art historian and sculptor Lorado Taft includes him in Taft's seminal book "The History of American Sculpture" in a chapter entitled "Some Minor Sculptors of the Early Years", and says of his Trumbull and Sherman statues at the Connecticut State Capitol, ""Descriptions of these curious works would be unprofitable.They fit in nicely with the majority of their companions, but of all the dead man there they seem the most conscious of being dead.