Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other things happen to Sepp. He has argued now & again with his intelligent, stodgy, Communist son; by his neglect he has brought his wife to suicide. Without at all realizing how, he has brought himself free of the reverential, abstract chilliness which inhibited his music. At book's end he sits hearing (over the radio), the first performance of the first great music he has written, the Waiting-Room Symphony...
...corner of Brooklyn Terminal Iron Works. Mr. Smith's iron work at the Neumann-Willard Gallery bears such titles as Head as Still Life, Unity of Three Forms, Leda, looks to the uninitiated like miscellaneous plumbing that has survived a conflagration. But to those who know their abstract iron onions, these arthropodal trivets are as good as they come. For his material, he sometimes ransacks junk yards, picks over leftovers from the neighboring iron works. Of his neighbors the boilermakers, he says: "They are pretty swell to me, even though they don't know what...
...coal-mine breaker's boy, a small-town lawyer, a Methodist and 33rd degree Mason, he respects hard work, thrift, the Bible and Oilman Joe Pew; likes Welsh singing, duck-shooting, boiled dinners; wears high-top shoes with hooked laces; loathes progressivism in any form but the abstract. Yet there have been U. S. Presidents of less force than Mr. James...
Warren Wheelock does both abstract and realistic sculpture, regularly switches from one to the other. Typical is his Lincoln series. The Intellectual Lincoln (1924) is a cross between an abstraction and a totem pole. The Meditative Lincoln (1930) is a seated abstract figure that might equally well be Rameses II. Realistic from shoes to stovepipe hat is The Tragic Lincoln (1934), his sombre Lincoln on Horseback...
...believer in repetition, Sculptor Wheelock keeps on experimenting. His lively, engaging pieces range from a plump, belligerent figure of Fiorello LaGuardia to an abstract, pinafored Little Girl, from a bat-swinging Babe Ruth (Sultan of Swat), all curves and planes, to a shiny, swivel-hipped Black Dancer. "When a man stops adventuring," says practical Warren Wheelock, "he stops being an artist...