A Sun-Dial 
judged when it is added that the height from 
the bottom of the platform to the dial face is 
tour feet and six inches. While Mr. Calder 
views the subject of sun-dials as essentially 
architectural, rather than sculptural, he has 
in this case made the sculpture play an all- 
important part in his design. A table for the 
level dial is to be supported. Usually this 
turally over-conventionalized. They are 
lusty maidens and robust, and as easy in 
their postures as the duty ot supporting the 
table will permit. It is a rose that Spring 
holds in her hand ; poppies bedeck an arm 
of Summer ; Autumn bears the grape ; and 
a branch ot pine lies across the figure of 
Winter where the drapery disappears, as in 
THE MODEL OF THE SUN-DIAL FOR FAIRMOUNT PARK 
A. Stirling Calder , Sculptor 
is accomplished by means ot a central shaft, 
either ornamented itself or having decorative 
figures applied to it. But the sculptor’s im¬ 
agination did not turn upon so trite a pivot. 
Our table is borne by no shatt at all, nor by 
anything at its center, but by four figures of 
young women grouped around its edge and 
representing the Seasons. These are far 
trom being boudoir types of womanhood or 
mere remnants of feminine grace architec- 
all the figures, into the outline ol the body 
above the waist. In an apple bough held 
aloft by each is a suggestion of the full 
opulence of the year which each season 
foresees in turning her expectant head 
toward her companion season before her, 
whose place she is to usurp. With this 
idea of rotation accords the circular shape 
of the table above, and the signs of the 
zodiac about its outer edge tell ol the inter- 
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