GRAPEY, CHARLES American sculptor, was born at Philadelphia, Pa., on Dec. 3, 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 honourable men tion in the Paris salon of 1891 for his "Mauvais Presage," now at the Detroit Museum of Fine Arts, a gold medal at the Paris Ex position in 1900, and medals at Chicago (1893), Atlanta (1895) and Philadelphia (the gold medal of honour, Pennsylvania Acad emy of the Fine Arts) in 1899. In 1892 he became instructor in sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, also fill ing the same chair at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. He was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1905. He has received a number of gold medals at various exhibits. His better-known works include : "General Reynolds," Fairmount park, Philadelphia; "Fountain of Man"; "From Generation to Generation"; "Symbol of Life"; "Vulture of War"; "England" and "France" for the New York custom house; "Pioneer Mother Monument," San Francisco; "Meade Memorial," Washington, D.C.; and many portrait busts. He died on May 5, 1929.