Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts.

Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts.
The Lama — Frederick Roth, Sculptor
The Genius of Creation — Daniel Chester French, Sculptor
The Rising Sun — Adolph Alexander Weinman, Sculptor
Descending Night — Adolph Alexander Weinman, Sculptor
Winter — Furio Piccirilli, Sculptor
The Portals of El Dorado — Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Sculptor
Panel of the Fountain of El Dorado — Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney,
      Sculptor
Youth — Edith Woodman Burroughs, Sculptor
The American Pioneer — Solon Hamilton Borglum, Sculptor
Cortez — Charles Niehaus, Sculptor
The End of the Trail — James Earle Fraser, Sculptor
Panel from the Column of Progress — Isidore Konti, Sculptor
The Feast of the Sacrifice — Albert Jaeger, Sculptor
The Joy of Living — Paul Manship, Sculptor
The Man with the Pick — Ralph Stackpole, Sculptor
The Kneeling Figure — Ralph Stackpole, Sculptor
The Pegasus Panel — Bruno Louis Zimm, Sculptor
Primitive Man — Albert Weinert, Sculptor
Thought — Albert Weinert, Sculptor
Victory — Louis Ulrich, Sculptor
The Priestess of Culture — Herbert Adams, Sculptor
The Adventurous Bowman — Herman A. MacNeil, Sculptor
Pan — Sherry Fry, Sculptor
Air — Robert Ingersoll Aitken, Sculptor
The Signs of the Zodiac — Herman A. MacNeil, Sculptor
The Fountain of Ceres — Evelyn Beatrice Longman, Sculptor
The Survival of the Fittest — Robert Ingersoll Aitken, Sculptor
Earth — Robert Ingersoll Aitken, Sculptor
Wildflower — Edward Berge, Sculptor

Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts

“The influence of sculpture is far reaching.  The mind that loves this art and understands its language will more and more insist on a certain order and decorum in visual life.  It opens an avenue for the expression of aesthetic enjoyment somewhere between poetry and music and akin to drama. — Arthur Hoeber

The Fountain of Energy

A. Stirling Calder, Sculptor [See Frontispiece]

The Fountain of Energy is a monumental aquatic composition expressing in exuberant allegory the triumph of Energy, the Lord of the Isthmian Way.  It is the central sculptural feature of the South Garden, occupying the great quatrefoil pool in front of the tower.  The theme is Energy, the Conqueror — the Over Lord — the Master; Energy, mental and physical; Energy — the Will, the indomitable power that achieved the Waterway between the Oceans at Panama.  The Earth Sphere, supported by an undulating frieze of mer-men and women, is his pedestal.  Advancing from it in the water at the four relatively respective points of the compass, North, South, East and West, are groups representing the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and the North and the South Seas; groups richly imaginative, expressing types of Oriental, Occidental, Southern and Northern land and sea life.  The interrupted outer circle of water motifs represent

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