Many of the finest bronzes and marbles of the sculpture section are
given an adequate setting which would be impossible within the gallery
building, by being placed in the open, along the two ends of the lagoon,
through the peristyles, and under the Fine Arts rotunda.
As this group of sculpture embraces all types from the playful to the
very serious, it is foolish to try to appreciate the whole series at one
time. Perhaps the best way is to start first to familiarize oneself with
the smaller bronzes of the purely lyric type, the charming garden
figures, sun-dials, and miniature fountains, that make up such an
attractive part of the collection. Note how often the names of Edward
Berge, Janet Scudder and Anna Coleman Ladd recur in connection with this
graceful, intimately appealing sort of sculpture. On another day, when
life seems soberer, spend all your time in study of the more serious
works, such as Saint Gaudens' "Seated Lincoln," and McKenzie's "The
Young Franklin," noting how the dignity, sureness of touch, and sound
purpose of these make them more appealing with longer acquaintance. On
another day take the intermediate group, that is dignified but less
austere in theme-such works as Sherry Fry's "Peace," and Berge's "Muse
Finding the Head of Orpheus." Studied systematically, there is in this
series of statues a broad education in the appreciation of sculpture.
For convenience in reference the whole series is listed here. In regard
to those works which the labels make self-explanatory, no comment is
added, unless to call attention to some special quality which the
unpracticed eye might miss. Where the symbolism or "story" is obscure,
an explanation is given.
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.
About the rotunda are: 1. (Outside the southwest archway) Thomas
Jefferson by Karl Bitter. 2. (In center of rotunda) Lafayette by Paul
Wayland Bartlett-the statue given by America to France. 3. Lincoln by
Daniel Chester French, a dignified portrayal that cannot be justly
judged from the plaster model here exhibited. 4. Relief by Richard H.
Recchia, representing "Architecture." 5. Commodore Barry Memorial by
John J. Boyle. 6. Relief by Richard H. Recchia, representing
"Architecture." 7. Princeton Student Memorial by Daniel Chester French a
noble treatment of a difficult theme. 8. The Young Franklin by Robert
Tait McKenzie. This is a fine conception, in which the sculptor has
escaped from the conventional path of monumental portraiture. 9. (On
walls of west archway) Reliefs by Bela L. Pratt, representing
"Sculpture." 10. (Outside west archway) Portrait of a Boy by Albin
Polasek. 11. The Awakening by Lindsey Morris Sterling. 12. (Beside
northwest archway) William Cullen Bryant by Herbert Adams.
Along the north peristyle are: 1. (Beside main doorway of gallery)
Beyond by Chester Beach. 2. The Sower by Albin Polasek. 3. The Centaur
by Olga Popoff Muller. 4. Boy with Fish by Bela L. Pratt. 5. (At the
right) Returning from the Hunt by John J. Boyle. 6. (At the left)
L'Amour by Evelyn Beatrice Longman-a marble wherein the woman's figure
is tenderly beautiful. 7. Garden Figure by Edith Woodman Burroughs. 8.
(At the right) Fighting Boys Fountain by Janet Scudder. 9. Soldier of
Marathon by Paul Noquet. 10. (At the left) Youth by Victor D. Salvatore.
11. (At the right) Primitive Man by Olga Popoff Muller. 12. The Scalp by
Edward Berge-an unpleasant bit of realism. 13. (At the left) Apollo by
Haig Patigian. 14. (At the right) A Faun's Toilet by Attilio Piccirilli.
15. Duck Baby Fountain by Edith Barretto Parsons. 16. Maiden of the
Roman Campagna by Albin Polasek-a figure instinct with the spirit of
the antique.
On the circle at the north end of the peristyle are: 1. (At the right)
Young Diana by Janet Scudder-a young goddess of the hunt, conceived in
modern spirit, with remarkable freedom and grace of movement. 2. Great
Danes by Anna Vaughan Hyatt. 3. (In walk) Sundial by Harriet W.
Frishmuth. 4. Bondage by Carl Augustus Heber. 5. Boy Pan with Frog by
Clement J. Barnhorn. 6. Sundial by Gail Sherman Corbett. 7. Three
fountain groups in one basin, all by Anna Coleman Ladd. Of these the Sun
God and Python has been especially admired as a spirited and graceful
bit of work. 8. (On the lagoon side of the circle) Mother of the Dead by
C. S. Pietro-a sincere and powerfully realistic work, and quite unlike
anything else in the outdoor gallery. 9. (In walk) Chief Justice
Marshall by Herbert Adams. 10. Destiny by C. Percival Dietsch. 11.
Sundial by Edward Berge. 12: Daughter of Pan by R. Hinton Perry. 13.
Head of Lincoln by Adolph A. Weinman.
Along the roadway to the left, as one leaves the circle, are two
sculptures: Bird Fountain by Caroline Risque, and Prima Mater by Victor
S. Holm.
North of the lagoon are: 1. Fragment of the Fountain of Time by Lorado
Taft. 2. Nymph by Edmond T. Quinn. 3. Dying Lion by Paul Wayland
Bartlett. 4. Rock and Flower Group by Anna Coleman Ladd. 5. Whale-man by
Bela L. Pratt.
On the island at the north end of the lagoon is a fountain by Robert
Paine.