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Zimm has been most successful in the fine working out of his subject in a classical way, for the style of relief work accords well in feeling with the superb classic architecture it decorates. Primitive Man Albert Weinert, Sculptor Long ages past I lived and gave no thought of time or doing aught save going as my fancy took me.
"It makes water the chief feature," said the architect approvingly, "which is the best any fountain can do. Is there anything in art that can compare for beauty with running water? This fountain comes from Italy and these female figures, above the doorway, with books in their arms, are by one of the most interesting of the sculptors represented here, Albert Weinert.
They were designed by A. Stirling Calder and John Bateman, while the spandrels over the curve of the portals are the work of Albert Weinert, as are also the graceful, classic vases on either side of the entrances, the latter banded in low relief by dancing bacchanalian figures, while grinning satyr heads finish the curved handles.
Festoons of fruit in panels, blues and reds. Coupled Ionic columns, smoked. Effective against pink walls. Vases, before entrances, by Weinert. Bacchanalian revels, low relief. Satyr handles. Lighting standards on balustrade, designed by Ryan, modeled by Denneville. "Pool of Reflections," no sculpture. Italian cypresses, on sides of portals. Balled acacias between columns on corridors.
It is similar in general form to the memorial arches and gateways of the Romans, but in the use of architectural motives and in decoration it is of Italian Renaissance style. The niches at each end of the gallery contain figures of The Miner, by Albert Weinert.
"The Miner," in niches of gateway, by Albert Weinert of New York. Small portals Italian, fine color effect; lattice-work, orange, blue, light green'. Sculpture on Machinery Palace, by Haig Patigian, of San Francisco. Large columns in front and in vestibule of half dome, imitation Sienna marble. Small portals, orange columns at sides, pink niche, blue dome, orange above dome; pleasing tone,
This age is indicated, in the court, by the prehistoric figure surmounting the piers of the arcade and by the first sculptured group over the entrance to the tower. The repeated arcade figures, which were designed by Albert Weinert, represent alternately Primitive Man and Primitive Woman.
Decorations on columns of archways around court, kelp, crabs, lobsters, and other sea animals. Vertical lines in columns suggest falling water. Fairy lamps, two in each archway, delicately designed. "Primitive Man and Woman," by Albert Weinert, repeated alternately above corridors around court. Man, a hunter, feeding pelican. Woman, the child-bearer.
The primitive man and primitive woman repeated in a row along the upper edge had been finely conceived and executed by Albert Weinert. And the nobility of outline in the tower was sustained by the three pieces of sculpture in front made by Chester Beach. That top figure some people believed to be Buddhistic in feeling. But it belonged to no particular religion.
The minor sculptures in this court consist of the Caryatides by John Bateman and A. Stirling Calder; the spandrels, by Albert Weinert; "The Fairy," by Carl Gruppe, which crowns the Italian Towers; and the classic vases at the portals. The mural paintings in this court are disappointing. Two are surprisingly poor, considering the high reputation of the artists, and the third is badly placed.
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