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During the past week, a stone placque, in memory of Edward Wigglesworth, was placed on Wigglesworth Hall near the MeKean Gate. The placque contains a bas-relief of the original house in addition to the inscription...
...Renaissance collections in private hands, and probably the last. As it is now to be dispersed, this will be a unique opportunity to see a group of masterpieces of these arts, such as cannot be found together in any American collection or museum. Among the sculpture are most important bas-relief and basis of Desliterio, Mino, Della Robbia; a superb St. John by Donatello and no less than three works by Verocchia. Of medals are many by Pisanelle, the greatest of all medallists...
...oiler after it high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone...
Ever since the forceful, forbidding bas-relief of Rima- was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin at Hyde Park in 1925, the work of Jacob Epstein, U. S.-born, London-dwelling Jewish sculptor, has been big news to the British Press, bitterly attacked by the conservative, enthusiastically praised by enemies of prettiness. Last week the newest Epstein, a 6-ft. marble called Genesis, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. The storm broke the next morning. The statue is of a heavy, brooding, pregnant female figure with the synthetic Mongolian features of most Epsteins- low forehead, slanting eyes, Negroid nose, mouth and chin...
...spirit of the state infuse Sculptor Lee Lawrie's decorations. There are bison in bas-relief with inscriptions translated from Indian ritual. The maize plant replaces the classical acanthus. There are friezes of pioneers and covered wagons and on the pinnacle of the tower will shortly stride the colossal image of a sower. In addition to this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious...