Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound bigger abroad. Joe Benton was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Oklahoma in 1920. As a singer he was a pupil of the late great Jean de Reszke, a protégé of Chicago's old Kate Buckingham who gave Grant Park its fountain. Kate Buckingham gave Joe Benton a big champagne party after his debut last week in Tosca. Critics praised a new tenor who had a high clear voice and could...
...years ago Sculptor Carl Milles, recalling this familiar legend, won a competition with a sketch of a fountain to be placed in front of Stockholm's Concert Hall. Last week Carl Milles had finished the last of the plaster models of his Orpheus group. He and they were on their way to Stockholm where the models will be cast in dark green bronze. The fountain will be completed...
...Architect Eliel Saarinen invited Sculptor Milles to teach and work at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in pleasant, rolling Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit. There Carl Milles created his huge Orpheus fountain which many of his admirers consider the greatest of his great work.* Milles modeled an Orpheus descending from Heaven, his lyre resting on his left shoulder, his right hand plucking its invisible strings. Directly beneath Orpheus a stylized Cerberus is about to doze off into careless sleep. Around the rim of the fountain nude figures are arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very...
...Orpheus fountain, water will spurt up as high as the knees of Orpheus. Dripping lines of water from the teeth of Cerberus will harmonize perpendicularly with the legs of the figure. Human torsos representing shades in Hades have been carved into parts of the angular unsymmetrical base. When the fountain works they, like the dead, will seem to float in the mists of another world...
Carl Milles is a master at translating motion into monuments. In his fountain figures he seems to catch, as few others before him have been able to do, the pure music of motion. Born in Upsala, Sweden, 59 years ago. Carl Milles, when a boy, tried to run away to sea, was stopped by his father. But sea motifs have always played through his art, and fountains are his favorite and best subjects. He de signed a fountain of Tritons for McKinlock Court at the Chicago Art Institute, a jolly merman and mermaid for a Stock holm public square...