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yard with trees, 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 building?” 
It is fortunate that 
many sculptors 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 Fish,” 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 sculptors would 
build 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 Janet Scudder 
and is in the garden of J. L. 
Severance, Cleveland, Ohio 
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 
sculptor. Courtesy of Gor¬ 
ham Gallery 
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 
