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House & Garden 
Mattie Kdwards Hewitt 
In an attractive little grape arbor 
071 the Edwi>i O. Hotter farm at Mt. 
Kisco, N. Y., is a hroyize statuette. 
‘'Baby With Duck", by Frances 
Grimes. The position gives value to 
the statue and makes a pleasing 
“eye trap'’ 
0)1 either side the path wmged 
figures emerge from the shrub¬ 
bery. The grec7i bank becomes 
alive, once these statues are seen. 
The glimpse is on the farm of 
Edwin O Hotter 
display of sculpture and in 
which foliage and flowers were 
subordinate to this idea. 
Sculpture is perhaps the 
most really popular of all the 
arts in this country. Witness 
the ubicjuitous stone or bronze 
politician, the soldier of the 
Civil War or the Rogers groups 
of a generation ago. For all 
these things people have been 
willing to pay and to point to 
them wdth pride because they 
represented familiar personali¬ 
ties or ideas. So it was in the 
days of Praxiteles. His work 
was popular because ever)'- 
i)ody understood his subjects. 
The}' were household words, 
like the madonnas of the 
Renaissance. 
If sculpture is to be really 
acclimated here, it must be 
indigenous, of a kind that the 
average citizen can understand. 
It must l)e made to look at 
home in the average American 
place. It must be treated, not 
as an outstanding object of art 
dominating everything in sight, 
but as symbolizing the spirit 
of the place, of the flowers and 
leafage, an integral part of the 
picture. Such statuary will 
not be too conspicuous, and is 
more likely to be of bronze or 
lead than of marble. It will 
be more difficult to set, espe¬ 
cially where the composition is 
A piece of statuary will humafiize a 
pool. It can be piped for a fountain. 
Its setting in this garden is peculiarly 
happy, with the broad brick run of 
the pool and the dark planting for 
a background. Marian C. Coffi7t, 
landscape architect 
