Art Out-of -Doors 



non-commemorative works of art to our parks 

 would intelligently consider what kinds are 

 fitted for out-door erection. Broadly speak- 

 ing, a statue or group looks best out-of-doors 

 when it has a definite out-door character it- 

 self. The Falconer of which I just spoke is, 

 in idea, a most excellent out-door figure, 

 and so is Mr. Ward's Indian Hunter ; but 

 in another spot in Central Park there is a 

 group called Auld Lang Syne, which seems 

 to cry out for a roof above its head. No 

 one would care to see, under the open sky, 

 the figure of a mother rocking her baby to 

 sleep ] but a peasant mother trudging home- 

 ward from the field with her sleeping baby 

 on her arm might be wholly satisfactory. 



The question of appropriate placing natu- 

 rally includes the character as well as the 

 size of a monument. As the Falconer stands, 

 or even as the Indian Hunter stands, on the 

 edge of a road under a spreading tree, no 

 one should think of placing a portrait-figure. 

 And in certain retired nooks in the rural 

 portions of a park we can fancy little groups 

 of animals or rustic children looking well, 

 although a commemorative or a highly ideal- 



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