10 
House & Garden 
STATUARY IN the 
Having recovered from those dark days when the ultimate taste 
in garden statuary was satisfied with a cast iron stag on the 
front lawn, we at last approach an appreciation of the role of 
statuary in the garden picture. We view the garden as a com¬ 
position in which the flat planes of lawns, the colors and contours 
of flowers and shrubs and shadowy background of walls com¬ 
bine to form a setting for the focal point which is marked by 
GARDEN PICTURE 
some seemly piece of sculpture. Thus the statuary is given an 
environment worthy its art, and the setting, in turn, is enriched 
by its presence. This fundamental of garden esthetics is well 
exemplified in the placing of the fountain in the loggia court at 
‘‘Shallow Brook Farm,” the estate of J. C. Baldwin, Jr., Esq., 
at Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Edward Field Sanford was the sculptor 
of the fountain, and Benjamin Wistar Morris the architect 
