House and Garden 
it encloses a rectangular garden, where an out¬ 
door exhibit of sculpture, stone carvings and 
terra cotta will be placed against the broad 
walls and in the open spaces of the shrubbery 
and flower beds. But the main structure of 
cut Bedford stone, standing upon the highest 
level of the plateau, will be preserved by the 
city of St. Louis as a public art museum. 
This stately pa- 
vilion merited 
special attention 
because of its per¬ 
manent character. 
Here at each side of 
the main entrance 
are seated figures 
representing 
“Sculpture” by 
Daniel Chester 
French and“Paint- 
ing” by Louis Saint 
Gaudens. Above 
the main portico, 
screened by impos¬ 
ing Corinthian col- 
umns, are six female 
figures, represent¬ 
ing the six great 
periods of art— 
“ Classic Art,” by 
F. E. Elwell; 
“ Gothic Art,” by 
John Gelert; “Ori- 
ental Art,” by 
Henry Linder; 
“ Egyptian Art,” 
by Albert Jaegers; 
“Renaissance Art,” 
by Carl Tefft, and 
“ Modern Art,” by 
C. F. Hamann. At 
the ends of the base 
of the main pedi¬ 
ment are two huge 
bronze griffins, by A. Phimister Proctor, 
whose earlier modeling of animal subjects 
bespoke a special knowledge and skill. 
Crowning the top of the pediment is a seated 
statue, in bronze, of “ Inspiration,” by An¬ 
drew O’Connor, a work of exceptional merit 
and fully worthy of the place of honor it 
occupies. Near each end of the front wall of 
the permanent pavilion is a great niche, 
one sheltering a nude female figure, seated, 
of “ Truth,” by Charles Grafly, the other, a 
corresponding figure by Philip Martiny, typ¬ 
ifying “ Nature. ” All of these bronzes are 
gilded, and the same golden note is struck 
here and there in all the structures and prin¬ 
cipal decorations of the Palace of Art, as well 
as in the Hall of P'estivals, the Colonnade 
of States and the 
Cascades. A very 
interesting series of 
medallions in lime¬ 
stone, containing 
portraits of great 
architects, sculptors 
and painters, line 
the frieze of the 
Central Pavilion. 
They are some 
twenty or more in 
number and were 
executed by George 
1 '. Brewster and O. 
Picciri 11 i. Sur¬ 
rounding the base 
of the building the 
intermediate fig¬ 
ures are replicas 
from the antique. 
“ The exhibi¬ 
tion,” says Karl 
Bitter, Chief of 
Sculpture, “ finds 
its culminatingnote 
of jubilation in the 
Cascades, which 
will doubtless 
prove the most dis¬ 
tinctive feature of 
the exposition. 
The Hall of Fes¬ 
tivals and the Cas¬ 
cades have been 
treated as a unit, 
and their decoration is designed both to 
create a picture of surpassing beauty and to 
express in the most noble form which human 
mind and skill can devise the joy of the 
American people at the triumphant progress 
of the principles of liberty westward across 
the continent of America.” Here, appropri¬ 
ately, all is life and motion. The freedom of 
the released waters rushing down their wide 
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By Isidore Konti 
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