From an article in Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 200):
This article discusses a patronage dispute that arose between John D. Rockefeller Jr. and sculptor George Grey Barnard during the completion of the Adam and Eve Fountain (finished in 1923) on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, New York. Rockefeller demanded under contract that Adam's penis be covered by a cloud, while Barnard, through various means, including unapproved work on the statue, resisted this stipulation. This confrontation centers on a broadly sketched gender analysis of the Rockefeller family's dealings with art, on the contentious hierarchical relationships these art dealings highlighted, and on the artist, Barnard. The article concludes that the penis question was not incidental to Rockefeller Jr.'s position as the legal guardian of the fountain contract but symbolically and psychologically lay at the very heart of his determination to exercise "phallic" authority as the patron.
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