Word: beniamino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided by the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) in the U. S. Labor was WPA. The sculptor, who claimed to be the first to use stainless steel as a sculptural medium, was Beniamino Bufano, tough, visionary little Italian whose greatest ambition is to build San Francisco a 180-ft. statue of St. Francis of Assisi (TIME, Feb. 15). Many an old Chinese who suns himself daily in St. Mary's Square can remember Sun Yat-sen during his residence in San Francisco...
Forever Yours (Grand National). When Beniamino Gigli (pronounced zhee-lyee) was a choirboy in Recanati, Italy 40 years ago, he was called "Il Passero Solitario" (the solitary sparrow). When Enrico Caruso died in 1921 and Gigli inherited his roles at the Metropolitan Opera, he was called "the world's greatest tenor." Eleven years later when Gigli refused to take a 10% salary cut to help the staggering Metropolitan keep going, he was called names far less flattering, which so ''diminished" his "dignity as a man and as an artist'' that he went back to Europe...
...time Mayor Angelo Rossi appeared, listened to the arguments and promptly cast his vote in favor of the statue. Out in the corridor an excited crowd almost mobbed Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. "Good old Benny!" they shouted. "The statue wins!" Artist Bufano, who chopped off his trigger ringer during the War, frequently sleeps in his clothes, and lives almost exclusively on nuts, is a sculptor of un questioned ability who has had a burning ambition to give San Francisco a heroic statue of her patron saint...
Many another U. S. sculptor is being kept busy by WPA projects. Interesting among these is Henry Lion's 22-ft. figure of Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, cast for San Pedro, Calif., in cement and marble dust. In San Francisco, working for the Kuomintang, Sculptor Beniamino Bufano is finishing a stainless steel statue of China's onetime President Dr. Sun Yatsen. In Dallas, Texas Centennial visitors saw the work of Sculptors Lawrence Tenney Stevens and Raoul Jean Josset, who with 20 others were hired for the whole exposition job rather than for individual pieces...
...University of California, two huge frescoes were unveiled fortnight ago in the Medical Center's lecture room. By Muralist Bernard Zakheim, they showed the development of modern medicine, from the ancient purifying brazier to the xray. Not far away San Francisco's best known sculptor, Beniamino Bufano, was putting the finishing touches to a 14-ft. statue of Dr. Sun Yatsen, to be erected in Chinatown. Both statue and murals will be paid for with Federal funds...