Evening star., 1942-06-28

and the new. From 1t, the visitor,
passes quite naturally to a consid-
Grafton Of contemporary American
works in the atrium itself.
These are to be found in the
south court, and have been ar
ranged in groups with four large
pieces as focal centers. At the far
end is Daniel Chester French's imag-
inative conception, suggested by
western geyser, which the sculptor
entitled The Sons of God Saw the
Daughters of Men That They Were
Fair" This is in marble and has as
background the dark rich tones of
a tapestry-17th Century Venetian
-picturing a boar hunt. 1t was
French, 1t will be remembered who
did the Lincoln in the Lincoln Me-
mortal, the Dupont Fountain and
the Gallaudet Memorial in this city.
Two portrait heads stand to right
and left of his work in the Corcoran
Gallery. They are Henry Clay" by
Joel T. Hart, and David Jayne Hill"
by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, both
fine and very personal.
Flanked by Heads.
| At the opposite near-end of the
court will be seen Isidor Konti's
powerful and plastic Interpretation
of THE Despotic Age" which is in
bronze and especially significant to-
day. This, too, is flanked by por-
trait heads-both in bronze-one of
which is of the painter, J.. Alden
Weir, by Olin Warner, the other of
Ramsay Macdonald, by none other
than Jacob Epstein, the most &C.
centric of moderns, but here. in this
work, almost traditional, save in the
matter of technique.
On the east and west sides of
this hollow square are no less nota-
BILE groups. To the east Herman
MacNeill's admirable and alluring
Sun Vow" which for some time
stood in the center of the upper
atrium, and earlier still in a we'll
known collectors garden-an ap-
propriate placement, the theme
being an Indian lads test, shooting
an arrow straight into the eye of
the sun. To the right and left Of
this are Anna Hyatt Huntington's
graceful and decorative compost
tions of faWns and greyhounds at
play, both with admirable silhouettes
yet full of life and energy. Mrs.
Huntington, it will be recalled, is the
sculptor of the equestrian statues
Of Jeanne dare and The Sid"
both prominently placed in New
York and elsewhere-the former in
France, the latter in Spain.
Paul Manship's beautiful Dancer
and Gazelles' has the place Of honor
on the west side of this hall Man
ship was an Academy in Rome man
and has, as no other interpreted
in his works the spirit of the ancient
and the modern, thereby exerting
wide influence and adding to the
sum of the whole. On either side
of this work. which brings the flavor
of things lovely but remote. are
Remington's registering ranchmen
riding with breakneck speed and
shooting as perhaps only rangers
could in pioneer days in the West
entitled, "Off the Range"-and no
less stirring, but more timely, Hans
Schuler's profoundly impressive
group, The Four Horsemen,' whose
depredations are our nightmare Of
today.
Famous Work.
On the wall of the atrium to the
left of the grand staircase Is one
of the Corcoran's most recent ac-
quisitions in this particular field.
1t is a reduction, made by the
sculptor himself, Augustus Saint
Gaudens, of his famous Amor
Caritas," purchased by the French
government and for long on view
in the Luxembourg Museum. This
was done in Paris in 1898, when
the French government made the
sculptor an officer of the Legion
of Honor and he was also elected
corresponding member of the
Societe des BeauX Arts. In letter
to a friend in Boston, written at