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Most exotic: Isamu Noguchi's Radio Nurse, a grilled bakelite face-prettier as a radio than as a nurse. Most graceful: a brightly colored terra cotta mother and child by Waylande Gregory. Most arresting: José de Creeft's familiar strong and peaceful Head in Belgian granite. Most horrendous: a lifesize, lifeless woman by Alexander Archipenko. Her name...
...most important acquisitions of any of the college museums this year was the recent purchase by the Fogg Museum of 24 terra cotta statuettes in the manner of the great 17th century culptor. Bernini. Known in Italy as the Piancastelli Collection, they were first brought to this country in 1905 and are the largest group of such work outside of Rome...
...statuettes served as models made in preparation for important works of sculpture. As such they were very rarely preserved, quite in contrast to sketches for paintings which were saved by almost all the great masters. The terra cotta sketches are very fragile which may well account for their rareness. The works are of great importance to art students for they often show greater freshness and originality than the finished product and sometimes in this soft material the very finger of the sculptor can be traced...
...fact that much of modern sculpture can be multiplied through casting in bronze, terra cotta, and artificial stone gives it a far greater social significance than painting. It is, perhaps, for this reason that German sculpture (together with architecture) reached a peak of general excellence never attained by painting and scarcely reached even by sculptors of other countries...
...oldest item in the exhibit is a, Sumerian head of a warrior in stone, dated about 2500 B. C. Other items in the sculpture and ceramics gallery include stone reliefs from the stairway at Persepolis of about 500 B. C.; and a green terra cotta lion of about 1500 B. C. from Nuzi, one of the earliest known examples of finely developed glaze technique...