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...time Mayor Angelo Rossi appeared, listened to the arguments and promptly cast his vote in favor of the statue. Out in the corridor an excited crowd almost mobbed Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. "Good old Benny!" they shouted. "The statue wins!" Artist Bufano, who chopped off his trigger ringer during the War, frequently sleeps in his clothes, and lives almost exclusively on nuts, is a sculptor of un questioned ability who has had a burning ambition to give San Francisco a heroic statue of her patron saint...
...growth of WPA projects gave Sculptor Bufano another chance. Abandoning stone, he thought of a figure of glittering stainless steel, arms upraised in benediction. He made a model of redwood and copper, shrewdly choosing Regional Director Joseph Danysh of the Federal Art Project for his model. Then the arguments were on. Even the Catholic Church was divided, Father George of the Franciscans, representing the Father Provincial of the Western United States, violently objecting that the statue was an insult to his Order, Archbishop Mitty approving...
Many another U. S. sculptor is being kept busy by WPA projects. Interesting among these is Henry Lion's 22-ft. figure of Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, cast for San Pedro, Calif., in cement and marble dust. In San Francisco, working for the Kuomintang, Sculptor Beniamino Bufano is finishing a stainless steel statue of China's onetime President Dr. Sun Yatsen. In Dallas, Texas Centennial visitors saw the work of Sculptors Lawrence Tenney Stevens and Raoul Jean Josset, who with 20 others were hired for the whole exposition job rather than for individual pieces...
...University of California, two huge frescoes were unveiled fortnight ago in the Medical Center's lecture room. By Muralist Bernard Zakheim, they showed the development of modern medicine, from the ancient purifying brazier to the xray. Not far away San Francisco's best known sculptor, Beniamino Bufano, was putting the finishing touches to a 14-ft. statue of Dr. Sun Yatsen, to be erected in Chinatown. Both statue and murals will be paid for with Federal funds...
...decently spaced 1,250 exhibits by some 450 artists whose styles ranged from the clatter of a Biberman to the dignified craft of a Watrous. Included were such familiar U. S. names as Sterne, Burchfield, Speicher, Hopper, O'Keeffe, Jo Davidson (who did a special LaGuardia bust) Benianimo Bufano, Mahonri Young...