Robert P. Taylor's : Fountain: Reflections of 3 Dancing Maidens

Fountain -- Main Page

Fountain presents a number of drawings of Walter Schott's three-figure, life-size bronze, Three Dancing Maidens, a prize-winning fountain sculpture created in Berlin in 1910, but installed since 1947 in New York City's Central Park in the Conservatory Gardens, as the Untermeyer Fountain, (see History of this sculpture below) . This webbery (web gallery) explores the arrangement of visual data in the form of drawings and sketches of this fountain, much as did the earlier SeeAnew (see Related Taylor webberies link below). However, while that earlier site included images of many works, by a number of sculptors, Fountain is restricted to images of one work, The Three Dancing Maidens, by one sculptor, Schott. The rationale for so restricting Fountain is discussed on another screen (see link below, Rationale for focus and limitations).

Fountain is exclusively the work of Robert P. Taylor of Teachers College, Columbia University, who created and owns all this webbery's images . If you wish to use an image from this site, contact the artist (see Comments link below, to email him).

Though unique in subject matter, Fountain is one of several drawing-based websites created by Taylor to display his art and to provide examples of some of the powerful tools digitization makes available to the artist. In particular, these sites illustrate how the artist can use 2000 software to assist in modifying a drawing, preserving it exactly at various stages of its development, and exhibiting it in exciting new ways (see Digitization and drawing and Digitization and Concurrency of Exhibition below).