page_title: The Great God Pan (sculpture)
section_title: Columbia University
hierarchical_section_title: The Great God Pan (sculpture) / History / Columbia University
caption_attribution_description: English: Caption: "Fountain of the Great God Pan &#8211; 1907 / Sculpture by George Gray Barnard."
context_page_description: The Great God Pan is a bronze sculpture by American sculptor George Grey Barnard. Since 1907, it has been a fixture of the Columbia University campus in Manhattan, New York City.
context_section_description: Following the second rejection of Pan for Central Park, Edward Clark and his mother donated the bronze sculpture to Columbia College (now Columbia University). The sculpture was placed upon a green-granite Neoclassical base with three bronze lion-head water spouts for use as a fountain. Charles Follen McKim, of McKim, Meade & White, designed the architectural setting for Pan: a "D"-shaped granite fountain basin, circular pool, stepped platform, and exedra (curved stone bench). The Pan Fountain was installed in 1907 on The Green at Amsterdam Avenue and 120th Street, then the northeast corner of the campus.
  The sculpture inspired a poem by Ralph Perry, editor of the 1916 yearbook, The Columbian:
  To the Great God Pan
  
  We haven't got a bull dog nor an ideal for a totem.
  
  But yet we have a watchword and an emblem of our clan:
  
  We don't say much about it, for it passes our expression
  
  For the symbol of our spirit is the Great God Pan.
  
  Yes, the big and mystic statue that has crept into our blood
  
  With the love we bear our college—and who knows when that began?
  
  But we feel it, and we sense it with a fervor more than knowledge
  
  When we swear, so very softly, "By the Great God Pan!"
  
  All the bigness that is in us, all the glory that runs through us.
  
  That is called out by "Columbia!" as we travel in her van—
  
  And the spirit which it voices is of youth and aspiration:
  
  Aye, may we live forever by the Great God Pan!
  In 1959, to make way for construction of the Seeley W. Mudd Engineering Building, Columbia relocated the Pan statue and its granite base—but not its architectural setting and fountain—to Amsterdam Avenue and 119th Street. It was relocated again in 1963, to a courtyard between Fayerweather and Avery Halls. To make way for a 1975 expansion of Avery Hall, Pan was relocated to its current site: north of West 116th Street, between Lewisohn Hall and the Low Memorial Library.
caption: Fountain of the Great God Pan, Columbia College, c.1918
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "506", "Image ImageLength": "750", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Elements 13.0 (Windows)", "Image DateTime": "2019:11:25 14:00:56", "Image ExifOffset": "240", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "390", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "6984", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1008", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "767"}