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yard with trec>, bushes, 

 grass and flowers, or was 

 he trying merely to express 

 in human shape his sense 

 of beauty, or strength or 

 speed? Was he trying to 

 personify some abstract 

 idea, or to make a figure 

 which would emphasize 

 and vivify the lines of 

 some iiuilding?" 



It is fortunate that 

 many sculjJtors are now at 

 work in the spirit of the 

 ancients in so far as they 

 are trying to express the 

 sentiment of their times, 

 the ideas with which they 

 are most familiar. As a 

 consequence, instead of 

 making fauns or Miner- 

 vas, they are modeling 

 modern men, women and 



"Girl and Fisli," a garden fig- 

 ure of happy interpretation, 

 could find a place in a garden 

 pool sprayed as a fountain 

 base or in a stream of rushing 

 water. Harriet Whitney Frish- 

 muth, sculptor. Courtesy of 

 Gorham Gallery 



children with such poetic 

 atmosphere as they are 

 able to give them. Many 

 fountains, sundials and 

 other garden objects are 

 designed with the human 

 motive by artists honestly 

 trying to find the true and 

 harmonious note. We have 

 Yankee boys, children, 

 dogs, rabbits, frogs, birds 

 and so on in sculpture. It 

 looks as though in time 

 our garden sculyjtors would 

 Ijuild up a mythology of 

 their own invention. 



Silhouetted against the sky 

 and surmounting the garden 

 pool stands young Diana, a 

 clear-cut gem of garden statu- 

 ary. It is by J an ft Scudder 

 and is in the garden of J. L. 

 Severance, Cleveland, Ohio 



The sundial offers a wide and 

 varied field of interpretation. 

 This figure, "The Fruit Bear- 

 er," by Edward McCartan, has 

 found a sunny spot in the gar- 

 den of Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, 

 at Glen Cove, L. I. Courtesy 

 of Gorham Gallery 



These figures — Morning, Noon 

 and Night — support the table 

 of this sundial in the garden 

 of John Long Severance, 

 Cleveland. Ohio. Harriet 

 Whitney Frishmuth was the 

 scidptor. Courtesy of Gor- 

 ham Gallery 



