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in St. Louis. Bitter was comfortable with the proposed changes and made them, âwithout any special thumbscrew to my conscienceâ A decade later, the
Missouri Capitol Decoration Committee received permission from Bitter's widow to make another bronze casting of the work and place it in Jefferson
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was saved. Following the close of the fair, Bitter was employed to make âimprovements in a score of delicate detailsâ of the work and it was cast in bronze and placed in the
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and thus perusable and âswept into the dust bins of time,â only his relief showing the signing of the
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The fountain consists of two separate components, the granite pool containing the bronze centaurs and other figures by
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of 1904, Bitter contributed several pieces to the array of sculpture at the event. Since it was all made of
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