Show u i I Mr n til g F J How the Worlds World's Richest Man Came to r ce r P 4 Commission the Famous Sculptor to io P t Adorn This ot th N r a atY tY y Beauty Sp Superb L Ya Yau Yar try Figures of Adam and Eve r f i r u I a aa a za 9 HH l r W Wt t V h Ovo i ia a F 1 v R Rk k F Ar p rh 1 t tr r s i it t et rye f C J aN A br i 1 ut r p r fik 28 4 r p sq I y 4 fT t t What looks like a huge oil ail oilcan can at the entrance R t ta a cep F r s t to the Rockefeller estate where the Garden Garden of Eden is situated f a l Y A x A Ll years ago George Grey Barnard a s SIX th the distinguished American sculptor a w t ty tAJ y F AJ p tor was to pass pass a day as f t 6 the guest of John D Ii Ro at the a S latter's splendid country estate at Po- Po PoA Pot PoC Poy t C y r A H F Hills Bills As a result of the sculptors sculptor's VISit there the aged oil multi will semi be the proud and happy owner o of a mod mod- modem ern em Garden of dais a garden whose hose en- en enchanting t x h fy v pd AY natural beauties form the chanting III y most effective e possible setting for the of Adam and Eve which ther thet the r t o sculptor at Mr Rockefellers Rockefeller's command A has carved out of huge blocks of snow snow- sno- sno n o m fi white marble The two men h had a d h had a d 1 luncheon unc h eon t to- to 0 The aged millionaire enjoying a ukulele solo by one of his bis young w gether and when the meal was as finished l e women friends and showing h himself maeli as appreciative of music as 31 he they want ent strolling through the estate v is of sculpture and painting and the beauties of nature which lies m the heart of the beautiful countryside that stretches along the east east- s I ern bank ban of the Hudson Riser Rl only a few r- r 3 Wy W C Cr ay r rt t d ai r apt y aptt t miles to the northward of J t y New Yorks York's skyscrapers skyscraper w x N Ina In a mutual lave e of I beauty thesa two t men so A i k t t r rr r A strangely different m perr per per- perI personality r Sa av a aust t tp l lR achievement Na NaS Nad I R and a S d Y k q qC C C r A f found something n to draw a t YS N t r n t fit 1 few r L F K y them closely together and s s a wt G Ga bs rt make friendship happy ha Y r r he tt in sN s i Por Mr Rockefeller shrewdness v vall J 1 all his worldly shrewdness and for money ys s y a m genius gemus money ERs making IS a man of keen r rY Y fir 1 artistic sensibilities and rs hS hSe taking ev e cry er Y advantage a d c ct cof e w ws s 4 x t tw w rw ad I 8 of the opportunity which rs rz t r v vp his retirement from active business gives v r M f fk to gratify them I p k t w t 7 As they strolled along Mr Rockefeller's w wt t 32 lers ler's s mask like wrinkled face was as alight The statue of Adam which I George Grey Barnard has baa completed for Mr Rockefeller after more than five year of labor with pleasure pleasure to hear the sculptors sculptor's I nape naive bursts of enthusiasm at the love love- loveliness liness of the landscapes that were ere spread before them on every ery side This plateau is one of the most beau beau- beautiful beautiful beautiful things in America I exclaImed George Grey Barnard You could not hl have e selected a finer place for your house than on this pinnacle What splendid hOrizons As far as the eye e eve e could reach were ere hills and valleys alleys and not a single house housein Ili sight any anywhere here for miles But wait visit Mr bir Rockefeller said in deep even e tones Theres one more place I want to show you I was think thin thinking thinking ing mg of putting up a statue there Come Comesee see if it doesn't deserve It it They approached a garden lovely In In Its wildness and natural green beauty It was as like the approach to the kingdom of heaven Strange birds were flying to and fro Tiny streams of flowing water and here and there a hidden foun foun- foun- foun fountain tam tain delightfully shy sparkled pleasant pleasantly ly Iy in the sun The two men passed through the natu natu- natural natu- natu natural natural ral trails of ot an idyllic forest and coming into an open pen space saw before them a beautiful white wall waH with stone I steps running on either cither side andon amIon and amI on the top of the tho walla wall a magnificent fountain with great marble figures Barnard paused breathless while Rockefeller observed him with smiling shut eyes Why this is paradise paradiset the sculptor in rapture t And this is where I want you ou to put it Il statue remarked the oil king What ilo you vou OU think ought to go here What could go here but Adam and I burst forth Mr lilT Barnard It is the Garden of Eden and my best efforts shall go into the making ofa of a colossal I 1 Adam and Eve an Adam and Eve that shall brill bring to mind J the ideal man and woman oman Mr nIr Barnard set to work almost im- im immediately im immediately mediately in his great gleat studio in m New NewYork NewYork NewYork York For more than five fi years he tOiled with no long period of rest The marble marblo that was as ft as to embody the sculptors sculptor's vision and delight the tho aged king of oil and millions had been newly ne discovered Cred near Pisa It was more mel mel- mellow mellow low and durable than the tho Carrara mar mar- marble marble marble ble and better able to withstand our cli- cli climate cli climate mate male Great blocks of the magnificent clear white stone were v quarried at Pisa and brought across the Atlantic to America The sculptor searched tirelessly for forthe forthe forthe the man and woman woman who were ere to DO his models of ot Adam and Eve lave They had to tobe tobe tobe be fine healthy specimens of manhood and womanhood and also they mu must t be surpassingly beautiful Mr Barnard walked through city streets observing with Ith keen interest every passerby Would she be tall enough that thai dressed ell l ed woman whom ha ho Just lust passed Tho The fair faced nit lan choly waltre waitress in m the was tall enough but on her Iler face could not be depicted the Olympic calmness of an Eve E City life lifo had warped her No Nohe he must go el elsewhere e here for an Eve At last she came camo lOut Out of ol the invigorating rating air and healthy clim climate te of Colo Colorado rado sprang tho the model for Bernards Bernard's Eve The vigorous young daughter ct cf f fa a Spanish s sculptor and Indian mother she possessed freedom tho the glowing beauty and free free- free dom of the deal first woman For Por his bus Adam the sculptor went to the tho Maine woods and brought back a vigorous young woodsman Every day he worked his inspiration never neer leaving him The mystery of male und and female was what he was going to carve out of the stone stone the eternal theme running through nature There were discouraging moments times when he could not call up on the face of his model the smile of naive won won- wonder wonder wonder der that burned into his brain as the smile of Eve Once lie he happened to find in the photograph ofa of a young girl the eternal smile of lave Eve and he exclaimed in delight That is the very smile I have been trying to get on In my Evel Eve I And now the heroic statues are com rom completed completed The Tho beautiful white wall all at Po- Po Po Po Hills has been beon prepared and sev several eral Italian sculptors are busily engaged in placing the marble-arched marble background designed in fruits such as liS might blight have been found in the tho Garden of Eden The fruits of the garden hanging from the tho white whito clouds are arc mystic Mr Barnard explains c The clouds replace and illustrate the breath of God At first I had the face of God actual actual- actually actually ly Iy sculptured in the act of calling forth Eve But I realize that one cannot humanize that God God that you can give a II man godlike qualities but you cant can't draw up God in the imago image of man and man and so 10 I blocked the lace out I loft lett the tho clouds as representative e of the breath of God G At the foot of a great rock Adam sleeps and in back of him rising heaven heaven- h heavenward heavenward aven ward is Eve ve her feet wrapped In white the clouds the breath of God She comes just like the petals of a flower quicken quickening ing into life The clouds which wrap the limbs of Eve hold her In the air She cant can't simply ply Jump lump into life so life Ive I've had her suspended by breath Out Out of the breath of the Creator she is be- be bespoken be bespoken spoken She didn't come out of a rib That idea has a sound found psychological basis but people think of it too real real- realIstically realistically realistically The two immense figures of white Ital Ital- Italian Ital- Ital Italian Italian ian marble are separate in the StUdiO but when set up there will be a II recumbent recumbent bent Adam restive in his sleep from the creative pains in progress while from froma a cloud at his side aide representing Gods God's creative ve will Eve floats upward full full- blown with the maturity of body of a arace arace race mother but withe with e eyes es half halt cloned ed mouth slightly opened with the intuItive surprise of the awakening and arms flung in the protective attitude of a mother with her new-born new Eve as I have conceived her Mr Barnard points out is a tight light rosebud in process of unfolding the surprise ot of birth still on her face the body and limbs not yet unfolded to the full extent of the proud maturity and strength that will be hers hera a moment after the action achon of my theme While the pieta depIcts the Biblical Adam and Eve it is not a backward glance at the race but a for for- forward forward for forward ward aspiration to what man and woman edn be in the full abundance of physical perfection Tho The figure figures stand twenty high and weigh a hundred and five twenty twenty i tons An idea of Mr Barnards Barnard's pains pains- painstaking painstaking painstaking taking care on the tho statues may be had from the fact tact that he has done clono the mouth of Eva hundreds of times leaving the present conception as it is only because he thinks it approaches as near as prey may maybe maybe be his hili ideal of perfection But perfection in marble is not pos pos- possible pos possible sible Ible It is II here he ho said tapping his temple under the shock of black hair peppered with white I approach my Ideal but can never reach its expression This creation of Adam and Eve through the medium of marble will re- re re W I z t 1 P t I t r t ti h l t t t The appealing mar mar- mars s 11 I IbIe ble bIe Eve which is to tot t as e eI I JJ stand above Adams Adam a tK I reclining figure in inthe the most beautiful e vw err N part of the 4 6 ler Jer estate at ca caia ia i t k t S Si i tico Hill Hills N Yv Y GeA 4 wt f H t I t a t k f S F I J veal to the students of sculpture of the future futuro certain virtues 5 of working in ill the marble that are seldom found in our gen gen- gen generation oration because almost allour all our statues in marble are carried put out out and I I by the tho hands of others Few sculptors sculptors sculptors tors nowadays do any marble cutting tI A There Is s a whole world of possibilities his chisel to the when R a sculptor places 1 marble marblo that docs does not exist in the tIle clay clar and in an this field I find an expression thatis that thatis thatis is fundamental in every overy age aze as where sculptors have wrought in la the th Itself |