CHARLES ATWOOD. Sculpture

Sculpture, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, was not simply ornament. It was not just "lobby" sculpture, or "plaza" sculpture.   A sculpture's location, size, subject matter and purpose were integral to the building as a whole. 

Charles Atwoods' Fine Arts Building at the Columbian Exposition would not be complete without Phillip Martiny's sculpture.  Both are better for the other.

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TRIBUNE TOWER. Rene Chambellan

New York Architects, Howells and Hood, won the 1922 Tribune Tower Competition, submitting the "MOST BEAUTIFUL OFFICE BUILDING IN THE WORLD." Below are two allegorical sculptures by Rene Chambellan that reside above the front entrance. "News" and "Rumor"
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Chambellan's sculpture here is extensive. And it is "good stuff" (althought the word "BEAUTIFUL" may not apply). It hard to believe, though, that this is the same artist who worked on Rockefeller Center not so many years later, again, with Howells and Hood.