Western Arch, Court of the Universe:
The Westward March of Civilization, in two panels by - Frank V. DuMond Beginning in the north panel and continued in the opposite one.
Court of Palms:
Fruits and Flowers - Childe Ha.s.sam Painting in a lunette over the entrance into the Palace of Education.
The Pursuit of Pleasure - Charles Holloway A painting of the same shape as the preceding, over the entrance into the Palace of Liberal Arts.
The Victorious Spirit - Arthur Mathews In the lunette over the doorway into the Court of the Four Seasons.
Rotunda, Palace of the Fine Arts:
The Four Golds of California (Golden Metal, Wheat, Citrus Fruits, and Poppies) - Robert Reid In the ceiling inside the rotunda.
Art, born of flame, expresses its ideals to the world through music, poetry, architecture, painting, and sculpture - Robert Reid In the same location.
Birth of European Art. Birth of Oriental Art - Robert Reid Belonging to the preceding group of eight pictures by the same artist.
Pennsylvania Building:
Decorative Paintings - Edward Trumbull In the east and west walls of the center court of the building, showing Penn"s Treaty with the Indians on the right and Pennsylvania Industries on the left.
Biographical Notes
Adams, Herbert (Sculptor) New York. Born in West Concord, Vermont 1858. Studied in Paris. Figures on columns inside of Rotunda, Palace of Fine Arts.
Aitken, Robert I.
(Sculptor) New York. Born in San Francisco, California, 1878. Studied in Mark Hopkins Inst.i.tute, San Francisco, and Paris. The Four Elements, in Court of the Universe, and Fountain of Earth in Court of Abundance.
Bacon, Henry (Architect) New York. Born in Watseka Illinois, 1866. Studied at the University of Illinois and in Europe. Court of the Four Seasons.
Bakewell and Brown (Architects). John Bakewell, Jr. San Francisco. Born in Topeka, Kansas 1872. Studied at the Beaux Arts Paris. Arthur Brown, Jr. San Francisco.
Born in Oakland, California, 1874. Studied in the University of California and at the Beaux Arts in Paris. Horticultural Palace.
Bateman, John (Sculptor) New York. Born in Cedarville New Jersey 1877. Studied in the School of Industrial Art. Philadelphia and in Paris. Caryatides outside of Horticultural Building.
Bayley, Guy L.
(Electrical Engineer) San Francisco. Born in Vacaville, California, 1875. Studied at University of California. Chief of Electric and Mechanical Department.
Beach, Chester (Sculptor) New York. Born in San Francisco, California, 1881. Studied in Paris, New York and Rome. Groups on tower on Court of Abundance.
Bennett, Edward (Architect) Chicago. Preliminary Plans of Exposition.
Bitter, Karl (Sculptor). Born in Vienna, Austria, 1867. Died April 10, 1915, New York. Studied at Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Chief of Sculpture.
Bliss and Faville (Architects) Walter D. Bliss, San Francisco. Born in Nevada, 1868.
Studied in the Ma.s.sachusetts Inst.i.tute of Technology and abroad. William B. Faville, San Francisco. Born 1866. Studied in the Ma.s.sachusetts Inst.i.tute of Technology. Main Buildings forming center unit of eight Palaces.
Boberg, Ferdinand (Architect) Stockholm. Born in Falun, Sweden, 1860. Swedish Building.
Borglum, Solon H.
(Sculptor) New York. Born in Ogden, Utah, 1868. Studied in Art Academy of Cincinnati, and in Paris. The Pioneer.
Bourgeois, Jean Louis (Architect) Born in Autun, France, 1876. Died February 26, 1915, in France. Collaborated with Bakewell and Brown in Horticultural Building design.
Boutier, Eugene Louis (Sculptor) Frieze at Base of Spires on Horticultural Building.
Brangwyn, Frank (Painter) London. Born in Bruges, Belgium, 1867. Mural paintings of the Four Elements in the Court of Abundance.
Bufano, B.
(Sculptor) New York. Medallions on the arches in Court of the Universe.
Burditt, Thomas H.
(Architect) San Francisco. Born in Nellore, India, 1886. California State Building.
Burroughs, Mrs. Edith Woodman (Sculptor) Flushing, Long Island. Born in Riverdale-on-Hudson 1871.
Studied in Art Students League of few York and in Paris. Fountain of Youth.
Calder, A. Stirling (Sculptor) New York. Born in Philadelphia 1870. Studied in Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris. Acting Chief of Sculpture. Fountain of Energy; The Star in Court of the Universe; Flower Girl in Court of Flowers; Nations of the East; Nations of the West, in collaboration with F. Roth and Leo Lentelli.
Carrere and Hastings (Architects) John M. Carrere, deceased. Thomas Hastings, New York. Born New York, 1860. Studied in Beaux Arts, Paris. Tower of Jewels.
c.u.mmings, M. Earl (Sculptor) San Francisco. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1876. Studied in San Francisco and Paris. Repeated figure in Portal of Vigor. Palace of Food Products.
Denneville, Paul E.
(Architectural Sculptor) New York. Born in Ancy France, 1873. Studied Cooper Inst.i.tute New York, and abroad. Travertine finish of buildings.
Dodge, William De Leftwich (Mural Painter) New York. Born in Liberty, Virginia, 1867. Studied in Munich and Paris. Two Murals in Tower of Jewels.
Dumond, Frank V.
(Painter) New York. Born in Rochester New York, 1865. Studied in Paris.
Two Murals in arch of Setting Sun.
Ellerhusen, Ulric H.
(Sculptor) New York. Figures in attic of Rotunda and repeated frieze at base of Fine Arts Building.
Farquhar, Robert David (Architect) Los Angeles. Born in Brookline. Ma.s.sachusetts, 1872. Studied at Harvard and at Beaux Arts, Paris. Festival Hall.
Flanagan, John (Sculptor) New York. Born in Newark, New Jersey, 1865. Studied in Boston, New York and Paris. Figures on Tower of Jewels.
Fraser, James Earl (Sculptor) New York. Born in Winona. Minnesota, 1876. Studied in Paris.
The End of the Trail.
French, Daniel Chester (Sculptor) New York. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, 1850. Studied in Boston, New York and Florence. Genius of Creation.