Word: chiseled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sandwiched between "Fine Chippendale'' and "French Books" in the London Times last week was an ad that was enough to make an old sculptor turn in his chisel. The ad: "Epstein's masterpieces. Adam, Jacob and the Angel, Consummatum Est, For Sale. Offers Wanted." The statues were three of Jacob Epstein's most famous works: a hulking, dumbly defiant alabaster giant that makes the first man look scarcely human; a muscle-bound Jacob hugging a brutish-looking angel; and a recumbent, mummy like figure of Christ, with crude but powerfully eloquent hands upturned in protest...
...Cockneys. Ever the perfectionist, he once borrowed a chisel to set right a grammatical error on his grandfather-in-law's tombstone. But he found it harder to meet the recurrent agony of writing: "A hundred pages more, and this cursed book is flung out from me." Some days he had "the strength of 20,000 cockneys"; on others he was "sunk as in tropical oppression" with a "base, underhand desire to lie down in everlasting leaden sleep." Sometimes the limp writing hand he held out for Jane Carlyle to pat was only slapped, and Carlyle would whimper...
Over the last 20 years, some 40 of Zurbaran's paintings have come to light. His best are flat, angular studies of lean-jawed monks; even his paintings of women seem chopped out with a chisel. Depth and perspective interested him little. One of his finest, St. Serapion, is in the Wadsworth Atheneum at Hartford, Conn...
...handsome present for Ivan Mestrovic in his 70th year: the academy's Award of Merit and a $1,000 prize as an outstanding U.S. sculptor. They want him to come to Manhattan later this month and pick it up-if he can bear to put down his busy chisel for that long...
Father Anthony J. Lauck, 43, presented a statue as simple and serene as Painter Lebrun's canvas was noisy. It was a semi-abstract study of a Monk at Prayer, showing hands clasped and face upraised, chiseled out of rough grey limestone. Sculptor Lauck took several months to turn it out; his other duties keep him from working full-time with hammer & chisel. But he has been chipping away, off & on, for 20 years, and he has studied with such famed sculptors as Ivan Mestrovic and Carl Milles. Today Lauck exhibits his peaceful religious statues from time to time...