Word: bufano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call your attention to certain errors of fact in the biographical sketch of Beniamino Bufano included in your article entitled ''Pacific Progress...
...After the War, Bufano moved to San Francisco, married; had a child, deserted wife & child to study Terra Cotta glazing and firing in China." This is inaccurate. Bufano was not married until 1925, then to Virginia Howard, in Houston, Texas, by whom he had a son, Erskine Scott Wood Bufano, born in August 1928 at Ross, Calif. Mother and son have been residents of Mill Valley, Calif, for several years...
...Bufano "deserting wife and child," such a phrase implies an attitude of mind that is scarcely Bufano. Bufano is the type to which the desertion of one interest merely means absorption in another...
...took him a year. He worked in a field outside Paris because his figure, 25 ft. high, 10 ft. thick at the base, was too big to get in any studio. It was the coldest winter France had known for half a century. Sculptor Bufano broke scores of tools on the tough granite before he found a special U. S. steel tool that would last nearly a fortnight. Finally his St. Francis was finished. Sculptor Bufano was out $2,400 of his own money. He moved his St. Francis into a barn, neglected even to have it photographed. From under...
...contributions to last week's Progressive show, crop-headed Ben Bufano presented a 10-ft. fresco of another cowled Franciscan, screaming. It had no official title but to friends he explained that it was "Anathema Against San Francisco...