Word: bufano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works of Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, California sculptor, have caused mild civic insurrections and tournaments of mudslinging. Last week's row was the biggest...
Inhabitants of the quietly arty little town of Carmel, Calif, were enjoying their annual festival of music by the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Climax of the festival was to have been the unveiling in Carmel's city park of Sculptor Bufano's 14-ft. cylindrical steel and granite statue of Bach. Two nights before the scheduled unveiling, muscular mischief-makers tipped the statue off its wooden perch, stole its 200-lb. blue granite head. Some Carmelites observed that the statue had looked more like Bufano than Bach anyhow. But Mayor Keith Evans was hopping mad. Said...
...times Sculptor Bufano has rather ostentatiously sold papers, but he also makes weekly trips to Los Angeles to speak under XYA auspices at $25 an appearance...
...Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. famed for his barrel-shaped steel statue of St. Francis (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937), was picked to do the bas-relief. Able, but alternately dreamy, impulsive and opinionated. Sculptor Bufano turned in an acceptable drawing of the frieze, began work on a 30-ft. clay model of one section, niggled, quibbled, haggled, ordered materials only to change his mind after the requisitions had become entangled in WPA red tape. At one time he planned to cut the frieze in stone, get it financed by private sponsors. Last March, because of the delay, the local art project felt...
...head, exclaimed: "It's like having the hiccups! It jerks! It doesn't knit together! It has bad composition! It looks like the figures are pasted to the wall! It hasn't a flowing line from beginning to end! It. ... It. ... It. ... Ah. now. take Benny Bufano's model. He gave us something. He's selling papers...