House & Garden 
afford support for anni¬ 
versary garlands and plant 
decorations. The need for 
such projections was sug¬ 
gested by noticing wreaths 
tied to the ankles of the 
bronze statue,and suspended 
over the cornice of the ped¬ 
estal, in the event of a recent 
anniversary of a well-known 
city monument.” 
Mr. Calder further recom¬ 
mended that, as the ped¬ 
estal would cover the middle 
third of the small and narrow 
park in which it was to be 
located, a semi-circular row 
of arbor vitas or other ever¬ 
green tree be planted behind 
the statue so as to form a 
massive green setting against 
which it could be effectively 
seen. H is choice of material 
for the pedestal was North 
Providence bluestone( which 
M r. Stanford White has used 
in his pedestal for the St. 
NARCISSUS 
Gaudens’ statue of Farragut), it 
being as hard and durable as 
granite and much more conform¬ 
able in color with the bronze of 
the statue. 
An experiment, which of late 
has been engaging some part of 
Mr. Calder’s time, is the appli¬ 
cation of very low relief to or¬ 
dinary portrait purposes. He 
holds to the opinion that the 
portrait panel could be advanta¬ 
geously employed, far more 
commonly than it now is, in the 
interior decoration of the house, 
particularly 
if the panel 
wereinserted 
in the wall of 
the hall 
passageway 
or landings, 
which forbid 
the use of 
A COMPETITIVE DESIGN FOR THE MAINE MONUMENT 
PRIMAL DISCONTENT 
such obstructions as detached busts 
and statues. In a striking life- 
size portrait of himself, now in his 
studio, he attains, through a very 
flat surface, the effect virtually of 
a bare outline drawing. The 
tone, of course, can be made 
softer and richer by varying from 
low to high relief, according to 
the requirements of the setting 
or the peculiar demands of the 
subject. The criticism, how¬ 
ever, that I should make of his 
sketch for the large pediment, 
showing Penn and the English 
colonists of 
Pennsyl¬ 
vania, is that 
he has over- 
loaded his 
space. "Phis 
impression, 
perhaps, 
might not be 
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