@complex: From this life to the next 🕊️ After his wife Emelyn died, sculptor William Wetmore Story walked away from art. He eventually returned to marble at his children’s urging, creating ‘The Angel of Grief’ in Rome in 1894. The emotional sculpture became his final major work, and Story was buried beside his wife the following year. [📸: via/ GettyImages]

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