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Updated: May 16, 2025

The "Pioneer" is by Solon Borglum. The minor sculpture here consists of A. Stirling Calder's attractive "Flower Girl," repeated in the niches along the loggia; dignified Lions, by Albert Laessle, flanking the three portals; and again Carl Gruppe's "The Fairy," atop the Italian Towers. The Tower of Jewels, and the Fountain of Energy

Sheldon Cheney - An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition

The Court of Flowers we thought well named, both for its planting, McLaren at his best, and for its Italian Renaissance decoration, with that pretty pergola opening out on the scene, Calder's Oriental "Flower Girl" decorating the spaces between the arches. And those lions by Albert Laessle were a fine decorative feature.

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

Masses of flowers in the pervading luxuriant color-tone carpet the whole court with gold, while banks of green fill the corners and outline the borders. The six "Friendly Lions" with their conventionalized garlands, by Albert Laessle of Philadelphia, guard the three entrances, one on either side.

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

Cyrus E. Dallin, 30, 32, 35, 36, 37, 63, 66, 73, 83, Colonnade; James E. Fraser, 68, 119; A. Laessle, 51, 66, 67; Paul Manship, 92, 93; Attilio Plccirilli, 23, 42, 66, 73, 83, Colonnade; Bela Pratt, 61, 66, 89, Colonnade; A. Phimister Proctor, 72; Arthur Putnam, 67; F. G. R. Roth, 66. Medals Medals of Honor. John Flanagan, 38, 39. Gold Medals. James E. Fraser, 38, 39; H. A. MacNeil, 38, 39.

Ben Macomber - The Jewel City

Against wall, Corinthian coupled pilasters. Roman banging lamps, by Kelham, suggest bronze, great weight. Bronze, pink, green, and cream. Italian bronze lanterns suggest blue eucalyptus. Lamp standards between columns, globe half concealed, by Kelham. Charm of effect, improvement on those with globe wholly visible. Conventionalized lions in pairs at portals, by Albert Laessle, of Philadelphia.

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