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Curtis NOTES AND COMMENTS . .188 Yearly Subscription United States $3.00 Foreign $4.00 Single copies 35 cents. Entered May 22, 1902, as Second Class Matter, at New York, N. Y. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD COMPANY 115-119 FOFvIlt I i I IStt I, NEWINCW YORKTUKN WEST FORTIETHM STREET, H v>^ E. S. M tlli . T. MILLER, Pres. W. D. HADSELL, Vice-Pres. J. W. FRANK, Sec'y-Treas. DODGE. Vice-Pre* ' "ri ti i~f n : ..YY '...:.. ri ..rr.. m. JT i:c..."fl ; TY tn _.puc_. ,;? ,v^ Trrr.^yjL...^ff. S**^ f rf < ; ?SIV5?'Mr ^7"jC^ te :';T:ii!5ft^'^"*TiS t ; J%WlSjl^*o'*<JWii*^'J"-i!*^-^^**-*''*''^^ *,iiMi.^i;*'*iA4> i.*-Mt^*i; \**2*?STO I ASTOR DOORS OF TRINITY CHURCH. BY CHARLES H. NIEHAUS. PANEL ON THE LIBRARY Of J P MORCAN - Jdolph Weinman NOTABLE DECORATIVE SCVLPTVRES OF NEW YORK BVILDINCS BY YORK CITY is peculiarly the masters whose works are on view in the art center of America. mu- NEW Her galleries of great museums. This dis- seums, both public and private, cussion has no reference to the decora- and her innumerable galleries where tive features of public parks, such as works of art are displayed, are among monuments and other memorials. her chief institutions. But art has not Lower Broadway presents a great made its abode alone within the confines number of imposing fagades, many of of the Metropolitan nor about the pur- which have been superbly decorated. lieus of millionaires' palaces. There are The Exchange Court Building has four works of distinguished merit to be found heroic statues of Hudson, Stuyvesant, here and there about the city, mere de- Wolfe and Clinton, the works of J. tails of the decoration of vast temples of Massey Rhind. The same artist has trade, which would be treasured as mas- given us the beautiful group of symboli- terpieces in the foremost art museums cal figures on the American Surety of the land. Building, which is one of the most It is the purpose of this paper to pre- splendid fagades in the city. Again on sent to the reader some of the more in- the domed towers of the Park Row teresting works which adorn our city's Building we see eight slender graceful business houses and private dwellings statues silhouetted high above the street. the of are not con- works really worth seeing and yet sel- But works Rhind dom seen in the crowded thoroughfares. find to business houses. There are the A mere list of the names of the artists north doors of Trinity Church which who have contributed to the decoration depict scenes from the Old Testament, of these edifices looks like a list of the and farther uptown, on the Church of Record All Reserved. Copyright, 1920, by The Architectural Company. Rights 99 THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. St. Mary the Virgin in Forty-sixth street Paul Manship's unique art has become there are several fine examples of Rhind's a fad, especially in the realm of garden ecclesiastical art. sculpture. He is not known as the cre- Few if any sculptors have created a ator of the decorative features of build- larger number of decorative works on ings either public or private. Yet Man- New York buildings than Philip Martiny. ship's work may be found on the Fulton His works may be found in every part Street fagade of the Western Union of the city. The bronze doors of the Building, in a place where the marvelous Importers and Traders Bank at Warren technique of the sculptor may be studied street and Broadway present two excel- to advantage. lent illustrations of Martiny's work in Frederick MacMonnies is best known low relief. On the Chamber of Com- through his numerous monumental works merce one of the familiar groups is also about the city, especially in the bordugh from his hand. The lintel over the door of Brooklyn. We know of only two ex- of the old Mail and Express building emples of his purely decorative sculp- at Fulton street and Broadway represents tures on buildings. These are the span- the four continents. These figures still drels on the Bowery Savings Bank, works arouse our admiration in spite of the executed with a delicate touch which fact that two of them have been muti- unfortunately can not be seen to advan- lated to make way for the construction tage either from the opposite side of of a hideous show-window. Martiny's the street or from the platform of the most conspicuous work is to be found Third Avenue Elevated Railway. Mac- on the Hall of Records. The figures Monnies also made the two wall-foun- representing New York and Greater New tains which flank the main entrance of the York which grace the Park Row side of New York Public Library. The finished that edifice are presented here. Martiny works in marble have not yet been put also collaborated with French, Adams in place, but their representatives in and O'Connor in the faqade of St. Bar- plaster have been much admired. tholomew's Church, in Park Avenue. Of all New York's public buildings, The late Karl Bitter left many char- the Appellate Court House on the east acteristic examples of his art about the side of Madison Square is the most or- city. His are the three tremendous nate. Indeed, it has been declared to be titans which bear on their shoulders the greatly over decorated. It bears the lintel of the St. Paul Building at the works of many sculptors and some of corner of Broadway and Fulton Street. them seem to be rather out of scale. Over the entrance of the Chamber of Others are decidedly commonplace. But Commerce are two recumbent figures there are at least two works which re- suggestive of the similar works by deem this elaborately decorated struc- Michael Angelo. The great front doors ture and lift it high among the finest of Trinity Church show what Bitter sculptural features of the city. These could do in ecclesiastical art. The pri- are the pediment by Charles H. Niehaus vate residence of Mrs. Cornelius Vander- and the group which surmounts it by bilt, facing the plaza and the mansion of Daniel Chester French. Neither of these Mrs. Hungtington at F^ifth Avenue and artists has contributed much to the dec- Fifty-seventh Street, have charming il- oration of New York Buildings. The lustrations of Bitter's pleasing work. The pediment of the Court of Appeals and only sculptures hitherto placed on the the south doors of Trinity Church are Metropolitan Museum of Art are worthy the most noteworthy works by Niehaus. the great building which they so fittingly But there are several very fine and adorn, and the Tombs Angel in the characteristic examples of his art on the Criminal Courts building is full of tender fagade of the University Club on feeling. All these works illustrate the Fifth Avenue. These are the ideal por- great versatility of one of our foremost traits of the great leaders of the world's sculptors. thought carved on the keystones of the 100 THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. arches of the windows. Few there be pendous work was executed by John who to these pause regard splendid ere- Quincy Adams Ward and Paul Bartlctt. ations the which among throngs pass To study it properly, one must ascend them to every day. the fifth floor of the Mills Building Mr. French has created several mas- on the opposite side of Broad Street, terpieces about the city. The symbolic where an excellent view of the work can which flank the entrance of the be groups had. At that point of vantage one Custom House at Green are Bowling discovers that there is very fine symbol- PANEL IN ASTOR DOOR, TRINITY CHURCH. By Charles H. Niehaus. familiar to all. The beautiful groups ism in this great work. In the center which typify the boroughs of Manhat- stands the figure of Integrity, which tan and Brooklyn at the eastern ap- should dominate all business transactions. proach of the Manhattan Bridge, the At her left are Agriculture, represented great pediment of the Brooklyn Institute by a man bearing a sack of grain and a Building on the Eastern Parkway, and woman leading a ram. Farther to the Alma Mater, which dominates the ter- left are miners at work. At the right race before Columbia University Lib- of Integrity are two figures representing rary, are characteristic examples of Mr. Manufacturing and Electricity, while at French's art. In collaboration with the extreme right are reclining figures Adams, Martiny, and O'Connor, French representing Building and Constructive also designed the doors of St.