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...little Spanish town of Yerba Buena in California had not changed its name to San Francisco (St. Francis) in 1847, it might forever have lacked a colossus. It might also have been spared a long and bitter argument about that project which has involved its creator, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, with the City Fathers, the Franciscan Order, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Federal Art Project and, last and most lathered of all, Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Mr. Pegler discovered San Francisco's proposed colossus early this month and slapped it square on the button...
Beniamino Bufano is a small, swart, untamable sculptor of 40, whose adventures have included sojourns with China's sainted Sun Yatsen, India's Mahatma Gandhi. For about ten years he has been possessed by the ambition to give San Francisco a colossal statue of its "patron" St. Francis of Assisi, envisioned finally as a 150-ft. figure of glittering stainless steel. His first model for this won the approval of the local WPA, of Archbishop John Joseph Mitty, and, in the end, of the San Francisco art commission. Leading U. S. Franciscans, however, called it a "Mephistophelean monstrosity...
...steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided by the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) in the U. S. Labor was WPA. The sculptor, who claimed to be the first to use stainless steel as a sculptural medium, was Beniamino Bufano, tough, visionary little Italian whose greatest ambition is to build San Francisco a 180-ft. statue of St. Francis of Assisi (TIME, Feb. 15). Many an old Chinese who suns himself daily in St. Mary's Square can remember Sun Yat-sen during his residence in San Francisco about...
Saroyan on Bufano Sirs: My friend Reniamino Bufano [TIME. Feb. 15], the sculptor, like so many people who are not sculptors, sometimes eats nuts. Almost every day, however, in the presence of witnesses too, Bufano eats spaghetti and beef. There are never any cheers, no amazement. At the table, as a matter of fact, many people would not suspect that Bufano is one of the greatest living sculptors. Also, the model for Bufano's St. Francis was not my friend Joseph Danysh, Regional Adviser for The Federal Art Project on the West Coast. The model was St. Francis-inwardly...
...Bufano made the model three years ago, before Danysh was appointed Regional Adviser. Danysh is an energetic young man with a lot of excellent ideas and impulses who happens to have a brown beard. He is not a stuffed shirt, is locally famous for his humor, would not have permitted himself to be the model, seeks no fame through the Saint. TIME'S account was pleasant to read, partly incorrect, but not too grievously so. Friends of Bufano are glad the creation of a great monument to a great human being is the source of some warmth and humor...