An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition: Explanations of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, With a Guide for Study in the Art GalleryCheney, Sheldon
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An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition: Explanations of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, With a Guide for Study in the Art Gallery
Cheney, Sheldon
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
South of the lagoon are: 1. Sea Lions by Frederick G. R. Roth. 2. The
Scout by Cyrus E. Dallin. Note the remarkable clean-cut quality of this
equestrian statue. 3. Wind and Spray fountain, by Anna Coleman Ladd. 4.
Diana by Haig Patigian-a graceful statue of the Greek goddess of the
hunt, which is in marked contrast to the same artist's strong figures on
the Palace of Machinery. 5. Peace by Sherry E. Fry. This beautifully
modeled figure has a classic simplicity that is worthy of study. 6.
American Bison by A. P. Proctor.
Beyond the second Bison, beside the roadway that runs behind the Fine
Arts Palace, is a model of the Kirkpatrick Monument, at Syracuse, New
York, by Gail Sherman Corbett. The central figures represent an Indian
discovering to a Jesuit priest the waters of an historic salt spring at
Syracuse.
In the circle at the south end of the peristyle are: 1. Seated Lincoln
by Augustus St. Gaudens generally considered one of the noblest works of
the greatest American sculptor. Note especially the dignity of the
whole, and the sympathetic modeling of the face. 2. Bust of Halsey C.
Ives by Victor S. Holm. 3. Bust of William Howard Taft by Robert Aitken.
4. Henry Ward Beecher by John Quincy Adams Ward-a dignified and
well-known life-size statue.
Along the south peristyle are (at the right) 1. Piping Pan by Louis St.
Gaudens. 2. Flying Cupid by Janet Scudder. 3. Muse Finding the Head of
Orpheus by Edward Berge-a marble well expressive of gentle grief.
Orpheus, sweetest musician of Greek mythology, after failing to recover
his beloved Eurydice from the underworld, in his sorrow scorned the
Thracian nymphs, who in their anger dismembered him. His head was washed
up by the sea and found by the sorrowing Muses. 4. (At the left) Michael
Angelo by Robert Aitken, showing the master-sculpture at work on one of
his famous figures. 5. (At the right) Young Pan by Janet Scudder. 6. (At
the left) Wood Nymph by Isidore Konti. 7. Young Mother with Child by
Furio Piccirilli. 8. (At the right) Wild Flower by Edward Berge. 9. (At
the left) Eurydice by Furio Piccirilli. 10. (At the right) Boy and Frog
by Edward Berge. 11. (At the left) Dancing Nymphs by Olin L. Warner. 12.
Idyl by Olga Popoff Muller. 13. An Outcast by Attilio Piccirilli. 14.
(Beside the doorway) Youth by Charles Carey Rumsey. Before the doorway
is to be placed The Pioneer Mother Monument by Charles Grafly.
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