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Bitter. (Outside southwest arch way.)
Murals in dome of rotunda, Robert Reid. Two series of paintings, four in each, "Birth and Influence of Art," alternating with "The Four Golds of California."
"Birth of Oriental Art," panel on west wall, toward main doorway. Man on dragon attacking eagle, heavenly bird of inspiration. China, man in bright robe. Japan, woman with parasol.
"Gold," panel to right, woman with wand; sits on horn of plenty pouring gold.
"Ideals of Art," panel to right. Greek ideal, nude. Religion Madonna and child. Heroism, Joan of Arc. Material youthful beauty, woman at left. Nature without inspiration or ideal, peacock. Figures with wreath and palm, rewards of art.
"Poppies," panel to right, second gold of California.
"Birth of European Art," panel to right. Altar with divine fire, guardian with torch. Mortal in chariot grasps torch of inspiration. Woman in lower corner with crystal globe, predicting future of art.
"Oranges," panel to right, third gold of California.
"Inspiration of Art," panel to right. Angels of inspiration above. Figures of Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Music, and Poetry.
"Wheat," panel to right, fourth gold of California.
"Priestess of Culture," Herbert Adams, of New York; female figure surmounting columns within rotunda.
Coloring of dome, burnt orange, turquoise green, Sienna columns.
South Peristyle (curved colonnade).
Youth, by Charles Carey Rumsey. (To south of doorway.)
An Outcast, by Attilio Piccirilli. (To right.)
Idyl, by Olga Popoff Muller.
Dancing Nymph, by Olin L. Warner.
Boy and Frog, by Edward Berge. (To left.)
Eurydice, by Furio Piccirilli. (To right.)
Wild Flower, by Edward Berge.
Young Mother with Child, by Furio Piccirilli. (To right.)
Wood Nymph, by Isidore Konti.
Young Pan, by Janet Scudder, (To left.)
Michael Angelo, by Robert Aitken. (To right.)
Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus, by Edward Berge. (To left.)
Flying Cupid, by Janet Scudder.
Piping Pan, by Louis St. Gaudens.
Circle at South End of Peristyle
Bust of William Howard Taft, by Robert Aitken. (To right.)
Henry Ward Beecher, by John Quincy Adams Ward.
Bust of Halsey C. Ives, by Victor S. Holm. (To left.)
Seated Lincoln, by Augustus St. Gaudens.
South of Lagoon
Kirkpatrick Monument, by Gail Sherman Corbett, Indian pointing out spring to Jesuit priest. (To right on roadway running back of palace.)
American Bisons, by A. P. Proctor. (Sides of roadway.)
Peace, by Sherry E. Fry. (To left.)
Diana, by Haig Patigian.
Fountain: Wind and Spray, by Anna Coleman Ladd. (In lagoon, south end.)
The Scout, by Cyrus E. Dallin.
Sea Lions, by Frederick G. R. Roth.
Court of Palms
Court of Palms, by Kelham; opposite Palace of Horticulture, between Palaces of Education and Liberal Arts. Italian Renaissance. Sunken garden.
Palaces at sides of court: to the west, Education; to the east, Liberal Arts.
"The End of the Trail," equestrian statue at entrance, by James Earl Fraser. Exhausted Indian, suggests destiny of the American Indian race.
Italian Towers, Byzantine influence, by Kelham. Both sides of entrance to court; identical. Simpler than towers at Court of Flowers, to cast.
Coloring of towers, by Jules Guerin. Walls frankly treated, not as stone, but as plaster, after Italian method. Blue checkered border, pink and blue diaper design; turquoise columns on little towers above, in harmony with domes and columns of Tower of Jewels.
Design on top, repeated four times at corners, from choragic monument of Lysicrates, in Venice.
Sienna columns at entrances of towers. Effective contrast.
Reclining women, purely decorative, in triangular spaces above entrances to towers, by Albert Weinert.
Figures on side of shield over all portals, very graceful. Pink and turquoise.
"The Fairy," crowning Italian Towers, Carl Gruppe.
Female figures, the caryatides on wide frieze, above columns, by Calder and John Bateman, of New York. Flushed pink, against pink and
Murals in dome of rotunda, Robert Reid. Two series of paintings, four in each, "Birth and Influence of Art," alternating with "The Four Golds of California."
"Birth of Oriental Art," panel on west wall, toward main doorway. Man on dragon attacking eagle, heavenly bird of inspiration. China, man in bright robe. Japan, woman with parasol.
"Gold," panel to right, woman with wand; sits on horn of plenty pouring gold.
"Ideals of Art," panel to right. Greek ideal, nude. Religion Madonna and child. Heroism, Joan of Arc. Material youthful beauty, woman at left. Nature without inspiration or ideal, peacock. Figures with wreath and palm, rewards of art.
"Poppies," panel to right, second gold of California.
"Birth of European Art," panel to right. Altar with divine fire, guardian with torch. Mortal in chariot grasps torch of inspiration. Woman in lower corner with crystal globe, predicting future of art.
"Oranges," panel to right, third gold of California.
"Inspiration of Art," panel to right. Angels of inspiration above. Figures of Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Music, and Poetry.
"Wheat," panel to right, fourth gold of California.
"Priestess of Culture," Herbert Adams, of New York; female figure surmounting columns within rotunda.
Coloring of dome, burnt orange, turquoise green, Sienna columns.
South Peristyle (curved colonnade).
Youth, by Charles Carey Rumsey. (To south of doorway.)
An Outcast, by Attilio Piccirilli. (To right.)
Idyl, by Olga Popoff Muller.
Dancing Nymph, by Olin L. Warner.
Boy and Frog, by Edward Berge. (To left.)
Eurydice, by Furio Piccirilli. (To right.)
Wild Flower, by Edward Berge.
Young Mother with Child, by Furio Piccirilli. (To right.)
Wood Nymph, by Isidore Konti.
Young Pan, by Janet Scudder, (To left.)
Michael Angelo, by Robert Aitken. (To right.)
Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus, by Edward Berge. (To left.)
Flying Cupid, by Janet Scudder.
Piping Pan, by Louis St. Gaudens.
Circle at South End of Peristyle
Bust of William Howard Taft, by Robert Aitken. (To right.)
Henry Ward Beecher, by John Quincy Adams Ward.
Bust of Halsey C. Ives, by Victor S. Holm. (To left.)
Seated Lincoln, by Augustus St. Gaudens.
South of Lagoon
Kirkpatrick Monument, by Gail Sherman Corbett, Indian pointing out spring to Jesuit priest. (To right on roadway running back of palace.)
American Bisons, by A. P. Proctor. (Sides of roadway.)
Peace, by Sherry E. Fry. (To left.)
Diana, by Haig Patigian.
Fountain: Wind and Spray, by Anna Coleman Ladd. (In lagoon, south end.)
The Scout, by Cyrus E. Dallin.
Sea Lions, by Frederick G. R. Roth.
Court of Palms
Court of Palms, by Kelham; opposite Palace of Horticulture, between Palaces of Education and Liberal Arts. Italian Renaissance. Sunken garden.
Palaces at sides of court: to the west, Education; to the east, Liberal Arts.
"The End of the Trail," equestrian statue at entrance, by James Earl Fraser. Exhausted Indian, suggests destiny of the American Indian race.
Italian Towers, Byzantine influence, by Kelham. Both sides of entrance to court; identical. Simpler than towers at Court of Flowers, to cast.
Coloring of towers, by Jules Guerin. Walls frankly treated, not as stone, but as plaster, after Italian method. Blue checkered border, pink and blue diaper design; turquoise columns on little towers above, in harmony with domes and columns of Tower of Jewels.
Design on top, repeated four times at corners, from choragic monument of Lysicrates, in Venice.
Sienna columns at entrances of towers. Effective contrast.
Reclining women, purely decorative, in triangular spaces above entrances to towers, by Albert Weinert.
Figures on side of shield over all portals, very graceful. Pink and turquoise.
"The Fairy," crowning Italian Towers, Carl Gruppe.
Female figures, the caryatides on wide frieze, above columns, by Calder and John Bateman, of New York. Flushed pink, against pink and