Arizona republican., 1915-04-25
Official Organ of State Federation of Clubs

poetic above it's gentle reflection in the water. But to my own taste it is con siGerahly marred Dy it's ornament which does not somehow seem to be an integral and necessary part of the building itself but to have been pastcd on rathar clumsily. tool as an after thought This gives it touch or cheapness which it's lines and purpose do not deserve. So, agaln, in this case do noC analyze, but get the general aspect of this building as a systemma- tical mass: it's color its repose. it's re- lation to it's space and setting, and You will get d sense of art and of the thing that will outlast many dull days.
 Just opposite. to my eyes, is the much-Vaunted Tower of Jewels" AL though the lines are graceful and the color pleasing somehow it does not seem to justify it's existence. To be sure it Slitters. (Some) but so does a new cIrcuS wagon, and there is some , thing about it irersistibly remindful of Swiss wedding cake. It's pretty, but k 1t Art? ?'' Don't be dcceiNcd-it is only an astuniShment.
 Then there ls somethince inspiring and justly. in the grand lines of the Court of the Universe. ThesWecp of the collonnade. and the two massive arches suggesting Rome, to the east and west. surmounted by Calder's two cullossal groups. Nations of the east and nations of the west. some lack a sense of fitness in the designers al- lowed the mouotonous and SupcrfIous repetition of the Star Figure above the calonnadc and the four little mis- placed obelsl.s upon the arches to mar what otherwise would have been the unbroken sweep of free line reaching to and eliminating in these two great groups of sculpture which interpret the meaning of this court
 The titles of these well enough cN- plain them. but the fact that they are more interesting in detail than in mass iS perhaps to he counted against them. that is. although they give a certain sense of grandeur they are more col lections of related figures than indi- visible monuments. They are best seen from q three quarter angle in brilliant sunlight against a deep sky. locking sharply upward, or in silhouct- tc against 9 sunset.
 The four colossal figures of the F1Ic- mcnts by Robert Aitllcn in the same Court. though somewhat bombastic in conception are Interestingly worked out: but they best suggest the mystery cf the forces which they symbolize when seen in the twilight. Then the great Column of Progress to the north of these. overlooking the North Gar denS and the RaY surmounted bv the inadcquately named group called Tine Adventurous Archer, hy Herman A. McNeIll, simple. complete and power fuL There are many objections made ;o this from base to point but for it's very simplicity it is one of the most consistent ana satisfying of all such monuments in the grounds. See this late in the afternoon. looking a little south of west. when nearly all the side toward you is in strong shadow. offset with an outline of golden light. or on hay morning looking east when the Adventurous one with his gigantic bow aiming across your left shoulder out oI the Golden Gate toward the mysterious orient towers dreamIike through a luminous vein,-the breath or the city. Here again the sugges- tion; and you will carry away an im- pression Of an unmeasured outreach- ! ing tower
 
 l ance designed by l.. C. Mullgarde. don't know what style or order of ar i chitocturc it is-I don't need to know and ! don't care. for it is the one most | complete and harmonious piece of de- sign to be seen in the Exposition: simple in line and arrangement. vet rich in ornament without a single su- perflHity- I only know that it satis- | fies me completely; that with it's myriad pinnacles pointed toward hea- ven it inspires me, that with it's quiet and strong proportions it gives me reposc.
 | Idnger in this court late of a sunny afternoon: watch the square fill with l shooting shadow creeping up the east ern walls, leaving the Tower standing | sheer in golden light. Watch this turn lo orange. to scarlet, to rose. to fawn | and as the twilight deepens the sky | turns to T rich prussian blue behind it. | Always that Tower aspires. Then be patient a little. Forget your supper and watch the lights come on The | subducd glow below. the kcener yellow | md white above. and the Tower seems to rise anew like a living etherial thing | against unknown night. This is not 1 artficc il is art.
 1 This transformation Of light is true of all these Courts and buildings, gIor- | flying even the most commonplace U ] Is worth looking for wherever the hon- before sunset happens to find you-for that is when Gucrin's color scheme re- 1 gisters it's full score.
 1 Now as to lights-thc more obvious | Gf not too obvious) effects of scarci, l tights playing upon certain domes and i towers need scarcely be mentioned foI
 like the sign with the pointing finger | you cannot escape thcm: but the lcs7 | prominent. rather incidental effects.
 are well worth your notice The in | direct lighting that makes the main 1 facadeS glow mysteriously against the | night, some angle of tho Court or l group Of columns that catch a random | shaft aslant; part of a statue cut with 1 electric sharpness upon the dark. the | rest vague in shadow: or the long rows l of lamps in colonnades or cloisters- 1ll these seem from out-of-the-yvav