Word: carles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carl Milles accepted Rodin's offer, and he traveled a long way in the master's steps. In time, his own statues were bursting out of bushes, rising from fountains, standing as monuments in city parks and squares all over Europe. Academies honored him; King Gustav V of Sweden called him Carl...
...life. By last week, 14 of the 36 life-size nudes, posturing and prancing on their plaster pedestals, were ready to be crated up for the foundry to be cast into bronze. A rich private cemetery in Falls Church, Va. had ordered the figures for a fountain, and Carl Milles had decided to model them on friends he had known long ago. The friends were all dead, but not to Milles. He had shown them in some pleasant afterworld living happily on forever...
...Carl Milles has always preferred a studio. Born in Sweden, he started modeling early, baking his clay in his mother's oven and avoiding school as much as possible. His father began to think his delicate son was a dullard. "Send the boy to me. I'll make a man of him," a friend wrote the father. Milles set out, "but I stopped in Paris. I stopped in Paris forever. For six years, I didn't write home. I was excited about...
...Carl is a stooped old man with long white hair, who has lived and taught at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art since 1931. Some of his best-known U.S. works: the Fountain of Diana, Chicago; the "Meeting of the Waters" fountain in St. Louis; the 37-ft. Peace Memorial, St. Paul; a granite monument to early Swedish settlers of Wilmington...
Besmocked, and mounted upon his ladders, he remains in his studio most of the day. Beyond a few intruders ("Mothers and children," he mutters with disgust), nothing worries him-not even his age. Surrounded by his ghost-white figures, Carl Milles says serenely: "I don't believe in death...