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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s one of Mr. Atwoods. The work of M.Waagen, on Machinery Hall, receives hardly so much praise, thewinged figures on the pinnacles especially appearing rather toolarge for the position in which they are placed. The sculptural work on Horticultural Hall was done by Mr.Lorado Taft, and some of it is exceedingly fine. It is noticeablehow closely in harmony with the architecture this sculpture is, boththe frieze and the two fine groups of the birth and death of theflowers. The architect and the sculptor must have worked together FINK ARTS. 385 here. Some of the children in the frieze are very lovely. Byrepetition of the design this frieze is carried all around the buildingand the effect is very rich and beautiful. Mr. Taft has probablydone nothing better than these groups, one guarding either side ofthe main entrance. There is a great deal of sentiment in them,and some of the figures are exceedingly beautiful. A more appro-oriate subject for such a place it would be hard to select, and not
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BUFFAI.0 AND INDIAN. By H. Bush-Browft. only is tne meaning suitable, but the treatment exactly s-^iits thearchitecture. Of the figures, the principal statue is Mr. Princes colossal Republic. There are differences of opinion about this work.Mrs. Van Rensselaer, who is certainly one of the best Americancritics, praises it very highly, and she especially commends itsadaptation to the architecture that surrounds it. This would seem25 386 FINE ARTS. to be just and well-merited praise, but the query rises, whether ornot the gilding of die statue helps in this particular quality. Thebuildings are white, meant to be like marble, and what color deco-ration there Is on them is for the most part back of the colonnadesand In the dome, thus not giving much effect of color at a distance.The gilded Republic, therefore, stands out In very sharp contrastwith Its surroundings. It Is true that the Athenians put statues ofivory and gold among their marble temples on the Acropolis, but these temples, tho

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