 It was the form that he turned to during the 1920s, carvings made directly from pieces of stone, mostly granite boulders from Maine that became the works closest to his heart and those for which he wanted to be remembered.He died January 9, 1961 at his retirement home in Rumney, New Hampshire at the age of 73.His assistant Elizabeth MacLean Smith wrote, "Here his teachings will go on, through his children and his pupils.