The Washington herald., 1921-05-22

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woman perfect In feminine fscs and hgurs-
Such IL the Barnardiaa epurse Of rsasouins.
To which the reiisiouist sdds thaf Barnard
has but followed the biblical story Of tAs
crestion In its entirety.
So God created man IN his own inass,
In the image Of God created be him; msls
and female created he them"
But Barnard assertn 1, turn Il was pse
- scientist nor yet a. q relisionist that hs
approached the nodelins Of his Eve, bot
simply a. an artist thinking Of beauty. BIS
Eve h not the conception of q sinsse mind,
out rather the composite Of universal thcushs
a. II eeuters on the remots inass Of ths
first womsn.
Naive, Weet, innocent % shds drur>.
Ihere h nsughf Of the tsmptrea sbcut a.
image. Eve has Just sprung into hfs; sAs
mas yet b gsse upoa tAs eyes Il her msss1
ne % -sr1se IRON his slssp and srset for Dc
nrst time The crestcrs kne~n . woman.
Together they srs b fans fprf4 N sxp,ors.
ton Of ths Garden Of Eden Ixfs fs n
mystery With al its secrsts - b b. m.
folded.
Thus, pietursed Just - tSs nsosut e
birth, Eve is q Guileles creature. Ths for
bidder fruits are Jet 10 BE- found eAs sppls
to be eaten; the sin to Be- committed. So
we have our stone imagery Of q favnliks
creature, unsophisticsted In the arts and
articles Of life, a. Innocent ss the chiId-
This is the picture Barnard has souxht I,
interpret.
They may not like Baznard's Eve. Tbey
may find fault on the score that there %
nothing Of the maternal in the figure. But
Barnard would caution you that this is the
hre woman in the first moment of life.
She has yet to learn that her mission In Life
S to propagate the race she has yet to suffer
the panes Of motherhood. Therefore, hsr
body is free, her figure 1.-the and srpple, her
limbs sturdy and graceful and a. yet not
given to the full breast and ample hip that
are to come with the passage Of time. She
in more like the Eve Of q celebrated FrencA
group picturing the burial Of Abel than the
bruised Eve of Robins in the Metropolitas
Museum.
A ND who was Bsrnsrd's model for chis
"A wonderful Eve? The artist tens you
first that Art is Of the time In which il Is
created. Our Eve today ID according 70 our
twentieth century conceptions Of art. Es-
sentially an American artist bent upon
building up American art, o. is evidenced in
Barnard's plan for q great American Acrop-
oils to be laid down upo. Gods Thumb"
an elevation Of land upon Fort Washington
in upper Manhattan, the sculptor has
evolved his Eve out Of the new vorld-the
America Of today.
His Eve is q beautiful young creature IN
whose veins runs Indian and Spanish blood.
What a combination for American srti
The Indian blood that was here when Col
umbus sailed the unknown seas more tia.
500 years ago and again when the PILGRIM
Fathers landed 800 yesrs ago this winter;
the Spanish blood Of the South American
continent barking back to the DAYS Of
Pissrro- North and South America blended
in one!
She is the daughter Of an old friend ofxss
artist, fellow sculptor. who lives In
Colorado. Her mother Ia a full -bIocSed
American Indian. What other race could
produce a more physical specimen of woman
hood than the North American Indian. What
more superb creature for q portrsitrre of th.
physically ft woman than q daughter of
Pocahontasi
Long hours she posed In the diftcuit posi-
ton that this new Eve Of the Pocsntico hills
assumes as she towers over her sleeping
mate. And she is but eighteen years old
Broadway had its sensational stories Of the
ladies Of the chorus from all the ''follies''
and the ''revues" vying for the honor Of
representing the first woman; but while the
press agents were busy the httle Indian eiri
out of the West, sans cigarettes, powder
pufs and the like, was holding down the
pedestal in the Barnard studio.
An unfolding bud of feminine humanity
at the moment Of her crestioui' So is she
described by her mentor. So you win ss>
Der when Barnard's Adam and Eve are re-
vealsd to the world. Remember that shs p
Eve at the moment Of creation and not t5e
sinful Eve who was crrsed with her msts
and driven from the Garden Of Eden afts<
the first Sin.
1T is the vision Of that first pertectioa
that has haunted mankind ever since" ssys
Barnard. and it is this perfection thst !
have attempted to visualiss in stons-"
The Unhappy Chance Z
A n AMERICAN tsils Of q visit be s.cs
n made to the town Of Yuste, In ths
northwestern corner Of Spain He hal
sought rest under diseear.sinS circun-
stances, after q ride on mule back over