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...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...
Like a zoo, the mammoth Main Hall (where engineers have installed an anti-museum-fatigue invention: two pyramid-like seats topped by Beniamino Bufano's sculptured animals, penguin and bear) encloses a large central pit, where, hacking away at a huge granite head of Leonardo, stands Sculptor Fred Olmsted. Helen Forbes works on an egg tempera. Dudley Carter, ex-logger and machinist, hews away mightily on 20-foot redwood sculptures with a double-bitted ax. German-born Herman Volz and 16 assistants work on a huge mosaic. All around the hall, busy as mud-daubers, miscellaneous painters, sculptors, weavers...
...light and shadow are softened by the Bay's hazy atmosphere. Mercifully softened also is the 400-foot Tower of the Sun, a nondescript steeple which serves to carry a 44-bell carillon. Last week San Francisco critics bore down hard on the Tower. Said Sculptor Beniamino Bufano: "It should have been a mosque or a minaret." Said Sculptor Ralph Stackpole: "The thing is up. What can you do about...
...this, Sculptor Bufano's artistic friends were not slow to remark that a "drool cloth" was something Mr. Pegler needed himself. Sculptor Bufano promptly challenged Pegler to make good on his offer to sculp something better. The horseplay stage of the controversy then began. Old Newshawk Pegler played ball with the boys by posing for photographs in an artist's smock and beret. Sculptor Bufano made a scornful sketch of Sculptor Pegler's statue. Finally completed last week and cast in plaster, Pegler's model was shipped to San Francisco. It was called "Mrs. George Spelvin...
Meanwhile, Benny Bufano was finishing a two-year job of revising and refining his model of St. Francis. Last week he disclosed it to TIME photographers. Unlike the original model, it showed the saint beardless and smiling, and the bird bath which once was planned for the top of St. Francis' head had been removed. San Franciscans who consider Sculptor Bufano's stainless steel and granite figure of Sun Yat-sen the finest statue in the city (TIME, Nov. 22, 1937) were wondering last week what this symmetrical mass will look like when 156 ft. high (five feet...