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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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ew has kept all lines as harmonious and grace-ful as possible. The faces of the two sitting figures suggest sleep^and even the standing figure looks mournfully down upon them asif she, too, would soon join them in their slumbers. The onlytouch of animation is the single belated Cupid who sits con-tentedly absorbing a bunch of grapes. This fruit is shown hang-ing in abundant clusters from the rocks on either side. At the feetof the figures is placed a branch of withered oak. On the other hand is the Springtime group, called the Battleof the Flowers, or sometimes the Awakening. In this theartist has tried to express the vigor and push of awakening SPANISH SECTION, VINICtTLTURB. vegetation by means of broken and angular lines, making thes:omposition as great a contrast as possible to the Autumn group.In the composition are the figures of three nymphs, a faun and twocupids^ all laughing heartily as they pelt each other with budsand blossoms. The faun is engaged in binding a garland around
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igS HORTICULTURE. the waist of the central figure,while she, in turn, has her armsfull of flowers which she uses inthe mimic warfare. The figuresin these groups are about eightfeet in height, and the workrequired several months. Theartists principal assistant in theexecution of this statuary washis pupil, Miss Julia Bracken. The frieze around the insideof the dome was painted by C,C. Coleman. It is composedof festoons and wreaths of thepassion vine, while the wreathsentwined the names of menfamous in horticultural and kin-dred arts. . The groups included in theclassification of this department,of which J. M. Samuels is chief, are as follows: Viticulture, manu-factured products, methods and appliances; Pomology, manu-factured products, methodsand appliances; Floricul-ture ; Culinary vegetables;Seeds, seed-raising, testingand distribution; Arboricul-ture ; Appliances, methods,etc. The south pavilion is de-voted to the exhibit ofwines. Here Australia,France, Russia, Austria, Cal-ifornia,

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