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...could finish their works in marble better than they could themselves. Through the years the six brothers faithfully executed such work by other sculptors as Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue in Manhattan, Daniel Chester French's great Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., and Robert Aitken's pediment for the west portico of the brand new Supreme Court Building in Washington, into which Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall (as a boy), Architect Cass Gilbert and himself. The brothers' business boomed. The red brick house grew...
Bitterly do less endowed young Cleveland artists wish that Russell Barnett Aitken, 25, did not do quite so many things so well. There is no question of his ability as a potter. Since 1931 his amusing, brilliantly colored animals and figures have persistently won prizes in, Cleveland, New York, Syracuse, wherever pottery is shown. His works have been bought by such shrewd collectors as Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mrs. Juliana Force. But that is just the beginning of his talents. Ceramist Aitken has been called the Richard Halliburton of modern...
...confused with sober, middle-aged Sculptor Robert Aitken or able, young TIME-FORTUNE Photographer Russell Aikins is Ceramist Russell Barnett Aitken. Son of David Aitken, electric ty coon, he inherited his interest in animals from his father, who started life as a fur trader at Rat Portage in the Rainy River country, Ontario. At the age of nine he was modeling clay robins, baking them by an open fire. He loved to skin weasels so that he might study their muscular structure. To study ceramics Russell Aitken went to the Cleveland Art School rather than an Eastern university...
...Ceramist Aitken has also served as a guide in the Ontario woods, been adopted by the Ojibway Indians with the tribal name of Lackwinni Mangoon (Lone Wolf). He teaches sculpture and plays polo at White Sulphur. He once flew a planeload of pottery from Cleveland to Newark, paddled through Germany in a kayak, crossed Austria on skis, engaged in sabre duels with the student Korps Hilaritas of Vienna. Polo, aviation, duck shooting and skeet are his favorite recreations...
...studios, one downtown for work, another for parties at his swank country place. "Beaverbrook." The Beaverbrook studio is built at the water's edge so that Ceramist Ait ken can shoot ducks from the window. All the furniture in this studio has been specially designed by Ceramist Aitken, from the polished maple radio to the bronze portrait of himself. The ceramics in his bathroom are of standard design...