Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
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The general effect in color of decoration is pink and blue.
The columns are coupled Ionic of smoked ivory, producing a most lovely effect against the pastel pink walls back of them. The caryatids lining off the pink and blue marble panels show a soft flush of pink. (These are by A. Stirling Calder and John Bateman.) The festoons of fruits at the side of the panels are accented in deeper blues and soft reds. Notice the delicate figures on either side the cartouche over the portals. The pinks and blues are so delightfully combined. Between the columns, against the wall, are balled acacias. The Pool in the center of the Court might be called The Pool of Reflections. In front of this Court is "The End of the Trail," by James Earle Fraser. Before you is the end of the Indian race. The poor Indian, following his long trail, has at last come to the end. The worn horse and its rider tell a long, pathetic story. By the entrances are great vases on which in low relief are Bacchanalian scenes. Satyrs form part of the handles. - |
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