Word: equestrianism
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...Potter Huntington. Always shy of publicity, Sculptress Huntington worked first with Sculptors Gutzon Borglum and H. A. McNeil. She has always been an animal sculptor by choice, but three human subjects have also occupied her. Every bus rider on Manhattan's Riverside Drive knows Mrs. Huntington's equestrian statue of Joan of Arc. There are other Huntington Joans in Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine; at Gloucester, Mass.; San Francisco and Blois, France. Dianas Mrs. Huntington has left in Cambridge Mass.; Austin, Texas; New Orleans and Biois. El Cid, medieval Spanish conqueror of the Moors...
...Friedlander (Doorway sculpture for Manhattan's RCA Building) was working in his Scarsdale, N. Y. studio on two big equestrian groups for the Arlington Memorial Bridge at Washington, D. C. Sculptor Friedlander won this assignment in a limited competition held by Washington's Committee of Fine Arts...
...Fogg. The head is the work of the conservative, elegant wing of late Renaissance sculpture which at first sight appears to be a copy of some portrait of Marcus Aurelius with its finely shaped head, its mass of close curls and prominent brooding eyes, all familiar from his equestrian statue as emperor and his marble bust...
...first President of the Philippine Commonwealth. Most Mestizos (of mixed blood) are constitutionally gifted with political "it." But in the past 30 years Manuel Quezon has given his countrymen an exhibition of straddling, transference and political gymnastics which, if performed on horseback, would make him the wonder of the equestrian world...
...jugglers put the last pat of perfection to their acts and a crew of stagehands struggled with a spangled, 40-ft. jack-in-the-box which pops out of something no bigger than a suitcase. In a Brooklyn riding academy, 16 acrobatic dancers were in training for an equestrian ballet. Inside the Hippodrome the enormous stage had been extended to include a circus ring, and upon it 400 animals, among them a white horse from Sweden which claps its hoofs, were doing their tricks to the tootling of Paul Whiteman's band. Everywhere at once, Producer Rose, who stands...