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...grilled bakelite face-prettier as a radio than as a nurse. Most graceful: a brightly colored terra cotta mother and child by Waylande Gregory. Most arresting: José de Creeft's familiar strong and peaceful Head in Belgian granite. Most horrendous: a lifesize, lifeless woman by Alexander Archipenko. Her name...
...Modernist Sculptor Alexander Archipenko, who excites his following by making his concave surfaces convex and his convex surfaces concave, proposed to erect a great statue of great Jew Moses. Said he: "Ever since the Nazis inaugurated their reign of terror, I have been thinking of a figure that would represent justice. . . . In Moses, I believe we have that figure! He changed the laws of life for the Jews, and through the Jews for humanity! In my figure of Moses, the distressed of all religions may find a reaffirmation of their faith...
...first modern manikins on Fifth Avenue was designed for Saks's veteran Display Director Sidney Ring by the noted sculptor, Alexander Archipenko. There are now several cunning sculptors who make manikins their business: Cora Scovil, Lester Gaba, Jean Spadea (who gives her Bonwit Teller manikins such names as Zombie, Emmie and Eve). Manikins sculptured in wire mesh and covered with sheet music were introduced at Bergdorf Goodman last spring by Buckley & Riley, considered the maddest independents in the business...
Ruddy, personable Wynne Byard Taylor is the daughter of famed children's specialist, Dr. Dever S. Byard. After studying at Barnard College for two years, she preferred sculpture to a formal debut, worked under Antoine Bourdelle and Archipenko. Her husband, Engineer Edward Taylor, has also a doctor father. They live quietly in Southport, Conn, with their two children who are seldom sick. Like most serious artists who do not need to sell their works to live Sculptor Taylor has no eye for publicity. The day before her exhibit opened she dumped a truckload of statuary at the gallery door...
Married. Cyrus McCormick III, vice president of International Harvester Co. of Chicago, divorced last month by Mrs. Dorothy Linn McCormick (TIME, Feb. 16); and Mrs. Florence Sittenham Davey, 38, Manhattan sculptress, pupil of Sculptor Alexander Archipenko, onetime wife of former Instructor Randall Davey of the Chicago Art Institute (Mr. McCormick is its vice president), sister-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to Peru Fred Morris Dearing; in Havana...