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...famed Orpheus fountain in Stockholm was finished in 1936 by Carl Emil Andersson Milles, Sweden's greatest living sculptor. In 1931, in his third year as resident sculptor at Detroit's suburban Cranbrook Academy, Sculptor Milles met Alderman Aloe's widow in St. Louis and learned her desire for a group of fountains in Aloe Plaza. In 1936 Mrs. Aloe put up $12,500, the city of St. Louis put up $47,500, and Sculptor Milles was commissioned to do for St. Louis what he had done for Stockholm...
Last year, while grey-haired Carl Milles worked serenely in his three Cranbrook studios, pictures of his first clay models for the Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri were published in LIFE. Francis D. Healy, elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners...
Walter M. Pillssury, Ann Arbor--Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan...
John A. Bradshaw, Ann Arbor--Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan...
After receiving the $65,000 commission, Milles worked four years at his studio in Cranbrook Academy of Art at Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit, to make a full-scale model which was shipped in sections to St. Paul, where the finished statue's 98 onyx blocks were carved and carefully lifted into place by a crew of workmen. The statue's turntable was motivated by a one-half h. p. motor which slowly swings the Indian 90° to the right in one hour, then 90° to the left next hour. From the second floor level...