Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts: Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San FranciscoJames, Juliet Helena Lumbard
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Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts: Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco
James, Juliet Helena Lumbard
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.); Sculpture
We do a great deal in the line of horticultural beautifying - we could
do far more - but how little we have done with one of the most
meaningful and stimulating of the arts.
Let us see to it, in San Francisco at least, that a few of these works
are made permanent.
Take as an example James Earle Fraser's "End of the Trail." Imagine the
effect of that fine work silhouetted against the sky out near Fort
Point, on a western headland, with the animal's head toward the sea, so
that it would be evident to the onlooker that the Indian had reached the
very end of the trail. It would play a wonderful part in the beauty of
the landscape.
Or take Edith Woodman Burroughs' "Youth." What a delight a permanent
reproduction of that fountain would be if placed against the side of one
of the green hills out at Golden Gate Park - say near the Children's
Playground - with a pool at its base. It is only by concerted action
that we will ever get these works among us. Who is going to take the
lead?
The Contents
Introduction
The Fountain of Energy
The Mother of Tomorrow
The Nations of the Occident
The Nations of the Orient
The Alaskan
The Lama
The Genius of Creation
The Rising Sun
Descending Night
Winter
The Portals of El Dorado
Panel of the Fountain of El Dorado
Youth
The American Pioneer
Cortez
The End of the Trail
Panel from the Column of Progress
The Feast of the Sacrifice
The Joy of Living
The Man with the Pick
The Kneeling Figure
The Pegasus Panel
Primitive Man
Thought
Victory
The Priestess of Culture
The Adventurous Bowman
Pan
Air
The Signs of the Zodiac
The Fountain of Ceres
The Survival of the Fittest
Earth
Wildflower
Biographies of Sculptors
Sculpture Around the Fine Arts Lagoon
The Illustrations
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