Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golf professionals watch for lucrative tournaments, so U. S. sculptors keep their eyes on the many fine arts committees which hand out the jobs of making America's monuments. Big assignments for sculpture come to U. S. artists by direct commission, through open competition or through competitions limited by invitation. Last week a handsome plum fell to Mrs. Laura Gardin Fraser, Manhattan sculptor famed for her medal designs, when her model won in a limited competition for a $100,000 Baltimore bronze of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson. Still groggy from a sinus operation...
Adolph Alexander Weinman (Frieze and bronze groups for Chicago Elks Memorial) saw the big bronze doors for the American Academy of Arts & Letters Building in Manhattan taking form in his studio at Forest Hills, L. I. Last year this job came to Sculptor Weinman as a direct commission...
Robert Aitken (Supreme Court Building pediment) was rounding out his fourth year of work on the direct commission for a frieze in the Columbus, Ohio Gallery of Fine Arts...
Charles Keck (U. S. S. Maine Memorial) was fashioning an 18-ft. Celtic cross to back the figure of the late Father Francis P. Duffy, famed Wartime chaplain of the 69th New York Regiment. This $15,000 job, to adorn Manhattan's Times Square, was given direct to Sculptor Keck by the Father Duffy Memorial Committee and approved by the New York Municipal Art Commission...
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