Those who have the city’s growth at heart should see to it that these men of brain and skill and inspiration are employed to help beautify the commercial centers, the parks, the boulevards of our cities.

We need the fine lessons of beauty and uplift around us.

We beautify our houses and spend very little time in them.  Why not beautify our outside world where we spend the bulk of our time?

We, a pleasure-loving people, are devoting more time every year to outside life.  Would it not be a thorough joy to the most prosaic of us to have our cities beautified with inspiring 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

The Fountain of Energy — A. Stirling Calder, Sculptor
The Mother of Tomorrow — A. Stirling Calder, Sculptor
The Nations of the Occident — A. Stirling Calder, Frederick Roth, Leo
      Lentelli, Sculptors
The Nations of the Orient — A. Stirling Calder, Frederick Roth, Leo
      Lentelli, Sculptors
The Alaskan — Frederick Roth, Sculptor