The Sculptures of Faulkner Farm 
fronts the sculptured 
records of the past in the 
barbarian environment of 
a museum. Such an in¬ 
stitution has an archaeo¬ 
logical value of sorts, and 
serves as a fire-proof 
storehouse until better 
times, but dull ranks of 
ranged busts, crowded 
gatherings ol hetero¬ 
geneous statues, old urns 
and vases and bas-reliefs 
piled pell-mell in a white- 
washed room, stand 
dumb and tongueless to 
the imagination ; they are 
prisoners in the hands of 
uncomprehending cap- 
tors, and they cannot 
speak. But one statue, 
even if it is ol a poor 
school and decadent time, 
placed by itself in a spot 
where it may play a part, 
and within an environ¬ 
ment that gives it life, 
such a statue becomes at 
once a work ol art, its 
tongue is loosened, and it may speak for all 
to hear. The little twisted column with its 
tiny bust in An Ar¬ 
bour Angle , would 
count lor nothing in 
a museum; nor would 
the Tomb Relief , the 
Roman Vase or even 
the Sylvan God, but 
here, exalted to a cer¬ 
tain dignity, given a 
fitting task, treated with 
respect, they not only 
perfect the garden as a 
composition and a plexus 
of compositions, but they 
assume or reveal an 
actual value i n them¬ 
selves. We have hoarded 
and stored now for many 
generations, some day we 
may awake to an appre¬ 
ciation of the artistic 
value of works of art, and 
so give them a worthy 
setting. 
These gardens then, 
are well begun: that is, 
the creative faculty in 
man working in accord¬ 
ance with the directions 
of that mystical entity 
that no one can explain— 
the imagination — has 
done its part, but it still 
remains for nature eman¬ 
cipated from control to 
give the final breath. 
When the verdure shall 
have broken a little from 
control, when mosses creep up the clean 
stone steps and lichens cling to the thin 
lines of the carven 
stone, when the 
bloom of time has 
fallen over all, soft¬ 
ening, moulding, 
unifying, then the 
work of art will be 
complete. 
Ralph Adams Cram. 
YOUNG BACCHUS 
TOMB RELIEF 
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