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The Green Bag
paintings executed by Mr. Krehbiel in addition to two ceiling decorations. It is an end panel of the Appellate Court late Court room represents "The Light of the Law.” From the centre of the
lizing the fundamental laws of human life. As the theme as a whole sets forth the harmony of the universe, the design is entitled, "The Supremacy of the Law." The spirits of good and of evil are in the centre. Good is shown as
composition, which measures twenty six by sixteen feet, radiates the light. Around it float graceful female figures bearing torches to the four groups of
sinister. A cycle of four laws revolves around this centre. The law of love appears in the form of the union of man
figures arranged on the opposite sides
and woman, the man leading his mate
room frieze.
The ceiling of the Appel
of the border and symbolizing the vari ous divisions of law entering into Ameri
can jurisprudence. To the Common Law is borne the light of reason; to Mosaic Law the light of revelation; to Civil Law the light of order, and to
Canon Law the light of inspiration. The Common Law group shows its chief exponent in the character of Alfred the Great, supported by figures in whose keeping are the reports, digests and com
mentaries of that law. Mosaic Law is personified by the figure of Moses, with attendants holding the two tables of the Commandments. Civil Law is typified by Justinian, and grouped about him
are three figures bearing the pandects, institutes and codes. In the Canon
free and triumphant, Evil as veiled and
to establish a home; and of maternal love, in which the mother ministers to the child; the law of self-preservation, in which the chief figure wards off a threatening tion, typifieddanger; by two the aerial lawfigures of evolu~ that rise out of darkness towards the light; the law of life and death, in which the
spirit of death pursues life, which soars unmindful of its swift approach. The charm of the panel “Law and Equity" comes largely from the natural attitudes of the figures, the composition
being free from stiffness and arranged with grace and dignity. The truthful portrayal of familiar types gives the pic ture the character of distinctive Ameri can art. The painter has limned his
Law group is Gregory IX, attended by
figures with a truly affectionate gentle
figures supporting the two important
ness, and the symbolism of the picture
decrees of that pontifi'.
is the more effective because of its interpretation of the spirit of the law
The ceiling of the Supreme Court room, measuring twenty-one by sixteen feet, represents symbolically the prin
as one pre-eminently of peace substi
ciple of ‘Law in the governing of all
the children, and prominent places given to father and mother, widow and orphan, make a homelyI intimate appeal which is unusual in a work of this kind.
things. In the midst of storm clouds, light and darkness, and other phases of nature, are four groups of figures symbo
tuted for discord.
The treatment of
