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Last year the St. Louis City Art Museum received 330,000 visits from St. Louisans, listed few purchases of contemporary art. Disinterested citizens last week were able to debate this policy while doubting not at all the "lasting value" of the cat, an image of the Goddess Ubasti from the 6th Century B.C. Comparable to great similar bronzes in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the Cleveland Museum and the Bliss Collection in Washington, D. C., it possesses, as the museum eloquently pointed out, "in a static pose, the strength and snap of a taut bow string...
...alive seems more a political pretext than an error in fact. A note of optimism, however, creeps into the situation when one realizes that Mr. Farley has ruined his own chances of attaining stamp immortality. Yet if there is any significance in the Tribune's terse assertion that "Goddess of Freedom pictures will be discontinued," then all is lost...
When Nagesh Terimbakrao Yawalkar was 18 he left his father's house in Suvasara, State of Gwalior, India and journeyed to Bombay to be an artist. At the end of two months he was sleeping in Bombay parks. Then a calendar company commissioned him to paint a goddess. After two more months of painting goddesses, young Yawalkar tired of city life and lit out for home. There he remained until about a year ago, when the young, rich, plump, art-loving Maharaja of Gwalior invited him to show his paintings at the palace, Upshot of that was that Artist...
...life to form an army, educate a public, enlist foreign sympathies. During the first year of siege the Fifth Regiment in Madrid had the duty of packing off to Valencia the art treasures of the capital (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937).* Public statues, including Madrid's favorite, Cybele, the goddess with the civic crown who has long driven a marble chariot opposite the post office, were sealed in sandbag pyramids...
With one projected piece of sculpture Mr. Connick had no quarrel: the monumental, distinguished design for a new goddess, Pacifica (see cut), which San Francisco's veteran Ralph Stackpole modeled to be the exposition's 70 ft. cynosure. But Mr. Connick remarked of Abundance, a nude male figure by David Slivka, that it looked more like a failure of the fig leaf crop; of Occident & Orient, two female nudes by Jacques Schnier, that they would be barred from burlesque; of South American Woman Grinding Corn by Cecilia Graham, that it should be called Woman Bet-Loser Shoving...