PARK AND 
figures in this exhibition two children of the same family, 
and will be glad to know that they are to have a per- 
manent place in that park. His fisher boy has grown a 
little, but is just as beautifully modeled and as happily 
posed, as he tugs at his fish, also grown to an unmanage- 
able size, and flipping from the net. The companion 
group, a young girl of the same age, is also of the sturdy, 
strong and natural type as the delightful children’s figures 
which Mr. Crunelle has made his chief work. His art 
shows the same growth in power and strength as his 
subjects. These figures with two others are to stand 
at the four corners of the Rose Garden in Humboldt Park, 
shown in one of the illustrations. The work is a com- 
mission from the West Park Board. 
Miss Nellie V. Walker’s chief contribution is also a 
graceful nude woman’s figure for a fountain. It is a 
simple, well modeled standing figure holding a jar from 
which the water falls into a bowl in the other hand. 
Conceived in a different spirit is Mr. Lorado Taft’s 
Paducah fountain for Paducah, Ky. Paducah, the Indian 
chief, sits enthroned on a rock resting his arms on a 
tablet and gazing afar into the White Man’s land. The 
strong head and shoulders arid the well-studied mass of 
the group, rising from a very graceful and tastefully 
decorated pedestal, make a composition that is as pleas- 
ing in detail as it is successful in the large effects neces- 
sary to a public monument. The work stands about thir- 
teen feet high and is to be executed in Georgia marble. 
It is a gift of the D. A. R. of Paducah and is to stand 
in the Court House Square in that city. 
Mr. Taft’s Florentine fountain is a picturesque semi- 
architectural composition, showing a monk and a knave 
leaning over a wall and laughing together. 
A fountain model also captured the Lyman A. Walton 
special prize of $25 for an ideal conception. This was 
given to E. Louise Guernsey’s drinking fountain in which 
a very expressive little girl’s figure has been merged 
cleverly into a fountain piece of good decorative and 
structural qualities, and much sculptural charm. The 
lower part of the body has been admirably convention- 
alized into its setting to form a unified composition. 
TRITON FOUNTAIN GROUP. N. Y. BOTANIC GARDEN. 
Carl E. Tefft. Sc. 
CEMETERY. 23 
PRIZE FOUNTAIN MODEL. PADUCAH FOUISTAIN. 
E. Louise Guernsey, Sc. Lorado Taft, Sc. 
Miss Florence Wyle’s wall fountain, showing a chubby 
infant holding aloft a jug, is one of the best of the foun- 
tain groups and is re-studied from a model of hers shown 
at a previous exhibition, and illustrated in these pages. 
The cherub stands against a wall, one knee on the step, 
his fat body outlined against the background. 
The charming “Water Baby” fountain shown in one 
of our illustrations was modeled by J. Scott Hartley, the 
New York sculptor, and shown at the spring exhibition 
of the National Academy of Design in March. It is a 
companion to his sun-dial Puck of last year, which was 
illustrated in these pages. The fountain was duly ar- 
ranged in the center of the middle gallery, the basin 
filled with ferns, and a little stream of water spouted 
from the fish’s mouth high above the infant’s head. It 
has the same imaginative charm and decorative ingenuity 
of the Puck group, and is admirably suited to an out- 
door situation in park or large private grounds, which 
will doubtless be its ultimate destination. 
Our other illustration shows an important portion of 
the fountain group which Carl E. Tefft, of New York, 
executed for the Bronx Botanical Garden, in front of the 
main building. It is in connection with this Renaissance 
group, as he calls it, that he shows a letter signed “Au- 
gustus Saint-Gaudens,” under date of March 29, 1906, 
acknowledging the receipt of photographs of the group 
and adding: “It gives me pleasure to state that they re- 
veal an admirable sense of power and life, as well as 
dignity and balance of composition, which well justifies 
the entrusting to you of work of importance.” Of this 
group, Mr. Daniel C. French wrote a friend at about the 
same date: “His design was selected from many other's 
submitted in competition, because of its originality and 
artistic merit; and he has carried it out in a most admir- 
able manner. The finished work is sufficient proof of 
his ability as a sculptor.” 
