{"label":"Fancy","metadata":[{"label":"Date","value":"1923"}],"description":"John Gregory was born in England and came to the United States at the age of fourteen.  In 1912, he became an American citizen, then spent three years at the American Academy in Rome.  Upon his return to the United States in 1915, Gregory settled in New York City where he lived for the rest of his life.  \r\n\r\nLike many other sculptors who worked at the American Academy, Gregory interpreted classical and literary themes in a style that he termed the \"Playful Classic.\"  In addition to his interest in Greek, Egyptian, and West Asian forms, Gregory was clearly inspired by the Symbolist fascination with the enigmatic female countenance.  This combination of classical subjects and modernist aesthetics resulted in a conservative modernism that is also characteristic of the work by Gregory's contemporaries Jo Davidson and Paul Manship on view in this gallery.\r\n\r\nWhile Gregory won success in the 1920s for independent figures and lyrical, idealized heads such as Fancy, he was best known for his larger commissioned projects including nine panels for the façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.  Here at the Huntington, Gregory created the cycle of relief sculptures depicting the four seasons and the four ages of man for The Huntington Mausoleum, completed in 1929.\r\n\r\nOne of the most distinguished buildings on the grounds, The Huntington Mausoleum is the only building in southern California by the noted architect John Russell Pope.  Arabella Huntington chose the hill overlooking the estate's orange groves as the site for the Mausoleum, and Henry Huntington was responsible for conceiving its design.  The Huntingtons' dealer Joseph Duveen suggested Pope as the architect for the job and Pope, in turn, recommended Gregory as the sculptor.  The complementary nature of the sculpture and architecture was especially pleasing to Pope, who went on to use the Mausoleum as the prototype for his design of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.\r\n","related":[{"format":"text/html","label":"View details","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/30446/fancy"}],"rendering":[{"format":"text/html","label":"View details","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/30446/fancy"}],"sequences":[{"label":"default","canvases":[{"label":"R.2003-11c2","width":3072,"height":3682,"images":[{"resource":{"service":{"profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":256,"height":256,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8],"@type":"iiif:Tile","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json"},{"width":512,"height":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8],"@type":"iiif:Tile","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json"},{"width":1024,"height":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8],"@type":"iiif:Tile","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json"}],"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/image/v2/25134"},"format":"image/jpeg","width":3072,"height":3682,"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/image/v2/25134/full/full/0/default.jpg","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json"},"motivation":"sc:painting","on":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-30446/canvas/1070564","@type":"oa:Annotation","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-30446/annotation/1070564","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json"}],"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-30446/canvas/25134","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json"},{"label":"Photography © 2014 Fredrik Nilsen","width":900,"height":1200,"images":[{"resource":{"service":{"profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":256,"height":256,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8],"@type":"iiif:Tile","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json"},{"width":512,"height":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8],"@type":"iiif:Tile","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json"},{"width":1024,"height":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8],"@type":"iiif:Tile","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json"}],"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/image/v2/30028"},"format":"image/jpeg","width":900,"height":1200,"@type":"dctypes:Image","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/image/v2/30028/full/full/0/default.jpg","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json"},"motivation":"sc:painting","on":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-30446/canvas/1067050","@type":"oa:Annotation","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-30446/annotation/1067050","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json"}],"@type":"sc:Canvas","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-30446/canvas/30028","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json"}],"@type":"sc:Sequence","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-30446/sequence/default","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json"}],"logo":[{"@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/internal/media/logodispatcher/Huntington_Wordmark_SingleLine_L1Green.jpg"}],"@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-30446/manifest","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","thumbnail":[{"service":{"profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/image/v2/30028"},"@id":"https://emuseum.huntington.org/apis/iiif/image/v2/30028/full/%21100%2C100/0/default.jpg"}]}