Word: carvers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bronze bust was unveiled during the commencement of Alabama's Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute last week, disclosing the image of an aged Negro with benign eyes and wrinkled brow, wearing an old-fashioned coat, a wing collar and flowing tie. It was a likeness of George Washington Carver, and its presentation climaxed his long, remarkable, well-publicized career. Made by Sculptor Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas of Atlanta, it was paid for by George Washington Carver's admirers, black and white, mostly in $1 subscriptions...
This man was born "about 1864" in a cabin near Diamond Grove, Mo. His parents were slaves, owned by Moses Carver, who gave the pickaninny his own surname and christened him George Washington. One night the baby and his mother were stolen by raiders. The mother was never heard of again but agents of Moses Carver found the baby and got him back by swapping a race horse. In childhood George Washington Carver mastered every word in his spelling book. Finding himself a free but penniless orphan, he got what schooling he could in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, supporting himself...
Sculptor Rush, son of a ship carpenter, started his career as a carver of ship figureheads and as such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with...
...Nancy Vanuxem, pretty debutante daughter of Philadelphia City Councilman James Vanuxem, swathed herself in cheesecloth draperies and stepped up on a model stand holding a stuffed bittern by the right leg. It was a unique occasion in the history of U. S. art. William Rush, the first native wood carver of sufficient ability and reputation to be known as a sculptor, was at work on the first public fountain figure ever erected in the U. S., using, so far as records show, the first living female model. Years later the scene was painted by famed Thomas Eakins...
First Period--Poupore, assist by Carver, 18 :20. Second Period--Pope, unassisted, 4:20; Cutter, assist by Mechem, 11:01: Carver, unassisted, 11:21. Third Period--Carr, assist by Hicks, 3:05: Jameson, assist by Pope, Patrick, 7:21: Pope, assist by Patrick, 8:27. Penalties--McGinness (body check in center zone), McGill (board check), Poupore (high stick), Munro (roughing), Emerson (roughing), Allen (leg check), Guy (hooking). Referees--Hugh and Lefevre. Time--three 20 minute periods...