Word: frontierswoman
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Hermon Atkins MacNeil, who was born in Massachusetts, has molded his frontierswoman with all the solidity and heavy figure of a muscular St. Gauden's French peasant. She strides forward with breasts uptilted, an ax in her hand, a babe on her hip. It is apparent that she is about to hew something. She won place in the balloting in Manhattan...
...Sterne, came from Russia to the New York East Side where he absorbed his early art training as a bar boy on the Bowery. He is obsessed with the tragedy of the loss of the art of the ancients. It is not therefore odd that his depiction of the frontierswoman should resemble a Byzantine cowgirl, shotgun in hand, fearlessly facing whatever the gods may send. Her figure, stately as a cigar store Indian, might almost be expected to be worm-eaten, so true is it to the technique of the early Renaissance...