Word: bas-relief
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...then presented the bas-relief bust to President Conant on behalf of the Class of 1937. Mr. Pennypacker's little granddaughter, Nancy, unveiled the tablet...
President Lowell, who will speak briefly at the ceremonies, is the author of the following inscription, above which is a bas-relief bust of Mr. Pennypacker...
...memory of Henry Pennypacker '88, a bas-relief of his profile has been placed in the Harvard Union. Funds for this plaque were raised from contributions by the Class of 1937 and by the Freshman proctors of 1933. It was sculptured by Mrs. N. Horton Batchelder, the former Evelyn Longman, of Winsor, Connecticut...
...spectacle to which he referred was an 11-ft., 7-ton statue of Christ propped against the wall in London's swank Leicester Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...
...came the great Rima bas-relief in Hyde Park. Outraged Britons screamed about the lady's "hamlike hands," made speeches on street corners and smeared with green paint this portrayal of the ethereal heroine of Naturalist William Henry Hudson's Green Mansions (TIME, June...