South Entrance, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. A.Stirling Calder, Fountain of Energy, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Behind the fountain is the famed Tower of Jewels (Thomas Hastings, architect). A. Stirling Calder, model for the Fountain of Energy. Dubbed "The Coming of the Superman" by poet Edwin Markham, Calder's charging champion of the Panama Canal evokes the notion of the Nietzschean Ubermensch. Stereoview of A. Stirling Calder's Fountain of Energy, 1915. |