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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 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 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