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...commission. So Presi dent Robert Maynard Hutchins, 30, obtained from Yale last June, to be inducted in November, is living temporarily as the house guest of Harold Higgins Swift, potent meat packer and Chicago Trustee. A studio for Mrs. Hutchins, who sculps, was improvised over the Swift garage. Max Epstein, chairman of General American Tank Car Corp., who donated and for whom was named the Epstein Dispensary, has given some $1,000,000 for an art center. For teachers and pictures the university must look elsewhere...
...Jacob Epstein's weird London sculptures (Rima, Night, etc.) have caused acrid controversy throughout England (TIME, July...
Last week, however, Sculptor Epstein heard that 200 books elegantly illustrating the exhibition, designed to sell in the U. S. at $90 per copy, had been seized by U. S. authorities, sent to Washington, pronounced "unfit for circulation...
...that silly?" said Sculptor Epstein...
...Sculptor Epstein declared: "If the man in the street does not like the look of it on his daily way to work he can always avert his eyes. In any case, the artist who considers the taste of the masses is a fool and is stultifying his own art. . . . In all beauty there is an element of strangeness, of unfamiliarity, which ordinary, non-creative people find alarming. . . . In my Night there is a touch of the inhuman. That is appropriate to the vast, vague idea of night. You could not personify such an idea by an ordinary pretty human figure...