Word: bufano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...decently spaced 1,250 exhibits by some 450 artists whose styles ranged from the clatter of a Biberman to the dignified craft of a Watrous. Included were such familiar U. S. names as Sterne, Burchfield, Speicher, Hopper, O'Keeffe, Jo Davidson (who did a special LaGuardia bust) Benianimo Bufano, Mahonri Young...
Also, permit me to gently protest against the light way in which you discussed the artist's eccentricities. Sir, if you could but know the pathos of that powerful but thwarted will! To be born with any esthetic conception in this age is to be born into pain. Bufano's capacity to suffer is very great, and I cannot help but think how your article must have pained him. The creation of a colossal St. Francis was one of his great dreams. But he sacrificed too much for it, gave it the significance the world demanded...
VIRGINIA HOWARD BUFANO...