DOI article:
Hoeber, Arthur: Sculpture of Robert Aitken, N.A.
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43457#0022
Sculpture of Robert Aitken, N.A.
Copyright, the Panama-Pacific Exposition Co.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST: DETAIL OF THE FOUNTAIN OF THE EARTH BY ROBERT AITKEN, N.A.
bright and its dark side, all with rare intellectual-
ity, artistic fitness, and with unusual technical
excellence, for the man is a master craftsman. He
has injected much personal charm, shown the
grandeur of life, along with the physical perfection
of man and womanhood in their alluring quality
of youth, and the figures pulsate with life. It
remains to note that at the end, in the centre of a
formal parapet, sixty feet from the fountain, is a
colossal figure, symbolic of the setting sun, the
great orb having thrown off the nebulous mass
that subsequently resolved itself into the earth.
This figure carries with it down to the water’s
edge a great globe that will shed its golden light
along the water surface toward the group of
figures.
Copyright, the Panama-Pacific Exposition Co.
ORIGINAL SKETCH FOR THE FOUNTAIN OF THE EARTH BY ROBERT AITKEN, N.A.
IN THE COURT OF ABUNDANCE
XVIII
Copyright, the Panama-Pacific Exposition Co.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST: DETAIL OF THE FOUNTAIN OF THE EARTH BY ROBERT AITKEN, N.A.
bright and its dark side, all with rare intellectual-
ity, artistic fitness, and with unusual technical
excellence, for the man is a master craftsman. He
has injected much personal charm, shown the
grandeur of life, along with the physical perfection
of man and womanhood in their alluring quality
of youth, and the figures pulsate with life. It
remains to note that at the end, in the centre of a
formal parapet, sixty feet from the fountain, is a
colossal figure, symbolic of the setting sun, the
great orb having thrown off the nebulous mass
that subsequently resolved itself into the earth.
This figure carries with it down to the water’s
edge a great globe that will shed its golden light
along the water surface toward the group of
figures.
Copyright, the Panama-Pacific Exposition Co.
ORIGINAL SKETCH FOR THE FOUNTAIN OF THE EARTH BY ROBERT AITKEN, N.A.
IN THE COURT OF ABUNDANCE
XVIII