Nereids driving spouting fish.  Vertical zones of writhing figures ascend the sphere at the base of the Victor.  Across the upper portions of the sphere, and modeled as parts of the Earth, stretch titanic zoomorphs, representing the Hemispheres, East and West.  The spirit of the Eastern Hemisphere is conceived as feline and characterized as a human tiger cat.  The spirit of the Western Hemisphere is conceived as taurine and characterized as a human bull.  The base of the Equestrian is surrounded by a frieze of architecturalized fish and the rearing sea horses that furnish the principal upper motif for the play of water.  Energy himself is presented as a nude male, typically American, standing in his stirrups astride a snorting charger — an exultant super-horse needing no rein — commanding with grandly elemental gesture of extended arms, the passage of the Canal.  Growing from his shoulders, winged figures of Fame and Valor with trumpet, sword and laurel, forming a crest above his controlling head, acclaim his triumph.  The Fountain embodies the mood of joyous, exultant power and exactly expresses the spirit of the Exposition.  Its unique decorative character has been aptly described as heraldic, “The Power of America rising from the Sea.”

A. Stirling Calder

The Mother of Tomorrow

A. Stirling Calder, Sculptor

With upturned face, with steady onward gaze, the stalwart Mother of Tomorrow moves ahead.  Hers is the firm, determined purpose, the will to do — to accomplish that for which she has started.  She marches ahead of the types of the Occident.  It has taken all these types striving with common purpose to produce the future, therefore they form the Mother of Tomorrow, the matrix from which the future generations are to come.  Mr. Calder’s high, splendid ideals are directly mirrored in this one figure.  It is not hard to read the man in his handiwork.

The Nations of the Occident

A. Stirling Calder, Frederick Roth, Leo Lentelli, Sculptors

Into the great Court of the Universe, from the top of the Arch of the Occident, march the types of men who have made the Western civilization.  From left to right — the French-Canadian, the Alaskan, the German, the Latin-American, the Italian, the Anglo-American, the Squaw, the American Indian.  In the center of this well-balanced pyramidal group, surmounted by Enterprise and drawn by sturdy oxen, comes the old prairie schooner.  To right and left atop are seen the Heroes of Tomorrow — one a white boy, the other a negro type.  In front marches the splendid Mother of Tomorrow.

The Nations of the Orient

A. Stirling Calder, Frederick Roth, Leo Lentelli, Sculptors