The Three Graces, Marble fountain and sculpture at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

The Three Graces is a marble fountain and sculpture group by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, installed at McGill University in Montreal. It depicts three caryatid figures supporting a large seashell, with water flowing through dense vegetation. The work is also known as the Carytid Fountain Group, Friendship Fountain, and The Three Bares.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney modelled the caryatid group in 1913, winning an honourable mention at the Paris Salon and a prize from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Intended for the Arlington Hotel in Washington, D.C., it was shown at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. A marble copy was donated in 1931 and installed two years later at McGill University; a bronze version had been unveiled in Lima in 1924.

The group is also called the Carytid Fountain Group, Friendship Fountain, The Three Bares and Good Will Fountain. It depicts three atlantes holding a large seashell with vegetation, from which water pours. The Montreal copy is marble, donated in 1931 and installed two years later at McGill.

The fountain stands on the McGill University campus in Montreal, not at a street gate; the sources give no address, so check the campus map to locate it. It is an outdoor work, viewable at any hour without a ticket. The marble figures and basin are best seen in daylight, when the water and carved shell read clearly.

The marble copy at McGill was donated in 1931 and installed two years later. At the unveiling it was draped in the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes, with John Finley of the New York Times representing the United States and Governor General the Earl of Bessborough attending. Whitney, in poor health and mourning her husband Harry Payne Whitney, stayed away, having missed the Washington unveiling of her Titanic Memorial three days earlier.