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...hard-to-take abstractions as David Smith's tortuous steel Cello Player (the work of a onetime war-plant welder), visitors could turn to such literary hardware as Mitzi Solomon's aluminum Family of Man Totem. Among the best of the relatively representational items were Alfeo Faggi's leggy, high-breasted Eva, Koren Der Harootian's Slave, Burr Miller's classic marble nude La Victoire, and William Steig's tiny, self-effacing Elderly...
Photographs of sculpture by Brancusi Fiori and Faggi are also on show. The work of Brancusi is so eccentric that it has caused a furore among artistic circles wherever it has been shown. His work is so unusual, in fact, that the stolid customs officials of New York City, untrained in the finer points of the new style, refused to admit several of his statues exempt from customs as works of art. Art was art, they maintained, but not these monuments...
...Portrait of a Painter; Andrew Dasburg, with a landscape of New Mexico pueblos; George Bellows, with a group of striking drawings and lithographs; Charles Rosen, with a geometric landscape; Lucile Blanch, with a still life ; Henry Mattson, with a self-portrait; Ernest Fiene, with a portrait; and with Alfeo Faggi, with impressive sculptures, are perhaps most deserving of mention. The exhibition is notable for the high average of its achievement, representing as it does the almost unselected work of an entire community...
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