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Updated: May 20, 2025

The minor sculptures on the triumphal arches consist of a repeated winged angel with sword down-turned, by Leo Lentelli; spirited spandrels over the arches, representing "Pegasus," by Frederick G. R. Roth; and two well-adapted medallions by A. Stirling Calder and B. Bufano. All of these decorative features are repeated on both sides of both arches. Mural Paintings

Sheldon Cheney - An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition

Female figures suggesting Nature, by Calder; male figures suggesting Art, by B. Bufano, of New York. Above medallions on frieze, decorative griffons. Quotations on Arch of Rising Sun, west side, facing court, chosen by Garnett.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

Each column is crowned with a sculptured figure, representing the "Angel of Peace" by Leo Lentelli. Between the columns, set in a square of deep pink, is a burnt orange medallion, the figures in relief, suggesting Nature and Art, being designed by A. Stirling Calder and B. Bufano. On either side of the curve of the arch, latticed windows in green give a Moorish touch.

Louis Christian Mullgardt - The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural: Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition