Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sculptor Davidson put on the suits, struck attitudes in which he had seen the Senator, observed the folds of the fabric and recalled details. In the statue the modern clothing never obtrudes but serves to interpret the figure...
...Sculptor Davidson was born in Manhattan in 1883. His parents were Russians. They moved to the U. S. when the sculptor was a child, lived long in penury. But they sowed cultural seeds in their children. Jo Davidson can remember slaving at an ironing board and reading a book between strokes. He studied art in Paris at the Beaux Arts, and in the U. S. with Sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil and Painter George de Forest Brush...
...keeps abreast of the foibles of the art world, but turns from them to pulsating scenes about him. No one is bewildered by Davidson sculpture. He builds no weird convocations of planes, no fever ish conceits of form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern is the search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order...
...plump, dark-bearded, glinting-eyed, like a legendary Sultan. His studio home is in Paris and he owns a manor house at Sache in Touraine, a spot beloved by Balzac. Yvonne Davidson, his wife, is a handsome Frenchwoman who once taught school in Chicago. Recently she ran startling dressmaking shops in Paris where styles were developed for individuals regardless of the mode. The Davidsons have two smart, adolescent sons...
Five years ago Jo Davidson traveled in Russia for several weeks with Senator La Follette. On their return to Paris a bust and some sketches were made. The Senator departed. The sculptor never saw him again. When he set to work three years ago on the La Follette statue, the La Follette family sent him clothes, shoes and gloves that had been worn by the deceased Senator...