Word: bufano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alice is an amazingly successful production. Irene Sharaff and Remo Bufano have followed the illustrations of Sir John Tenniel to the last hatch mark in executing costumes, masks, scenery. Richard Addinsell's musical accompaniment is gay and tuneful. Straight from the printed page through the voice of Josephine Hutchinson, in pinafore and long golden hair, comes the sense of Alice's constant wonderment. "Off with their heads, off with their heads!" shrills Joseph Schildkraut as the Queen of Hearts. And the Mad Hatter (Landon Herrick) runs about cup in hand with IN THIS STYLE IO/ 6 stuck...
...sculptor as the U. S. contains. And on exhibition last week in the Palace was a pair of limbless little wooden figurines called "Mr. & Mrs. Technocrat" by Atanas Katchamakoff. On the other hand, star performer of the Progressives in their department store show was grizzled, close-cropped Beniamino Bufano, an artist of unquestioned ability who paints somewhat in the manner of Diego Rivera but whose sculpture looks like that of an Italianate Paul Manship...
...Progressives' show did nothing else it reminded people of Sculptor Bufano and the mystery of his great statue of St. Francis. Beniamino Bufano, brother of Puppeteer Remo Bufano, was born in Italy about 1890, went to New York as a child. In his early 20's he won a sculpture prize from the old Whitney Studio Club, ancestor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. During the War he put the trigger finger of his right hand on a block, chopped it off to avoid killing his fellow men. Later he carved a crucifix in which the Christ...
After the War, Bufano moved to San Francisco, married, had a child, deserted wife & child to study terra cotta glazing and firing in China. He returned a convert to Oriental philosophy, living entirely on nuts, and set up a studio in the old Hawaiian building, left over from the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. His unworldly attitude soon caused the sheriff of San Francisco to attach all his personal belongings. Nut-eating Beniamino Bufano moved to Paris...
There he let it be known that he had a commission. A number of rich citizens of San Francisco had given him money to carve a gigantic statue of St. Francis of Assisi for the top of Telegraph Hill-San Francisco's arty quarter. Sculptor Bufano acquired three enormous blocks of Swedish black granite and went to work...