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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