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...keep in the house. It is intended for outdoors, for the public to enjoy. Tony Smith is not the only artist to think in terms of outdoor space. Many other sculptors are beginning to create works on a civic scale. Among Tony Smith's fellow monumental sculptors: > Robert Grosvenor, 30, New York-born son of an amateur animal sculptor, builds immense brilliant yellow or red and black cantilevered diagonals, engineering marvels that sometimes hang from the ceiling or wall down to within a foot from the floor. One of his most recent works, destined for Long Island Sound, consists...
...evanescent fad, like mah-jongg or the Charleston. Almost alone, French Critic Maurice Feuillet in 1929 hailed him as "a harbinger of the art of tomorrow, a prince of fantasy, a magician of conception." Feuillet may have been close to the truth. Last month, when Manhattan's Grosvenor Gallery put on display 179 early gouache and metallic-paint designs by Erté, the entire collection was snapped up by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gallery has since been selling Erte paintings that it originally had no room to display...
...this Disneyland atmosphere, the handsomest work was undoubtedly the most stationary: the many varieties of outsized, technologically sophisticated minimal sculpture, much of it stationed outdoors (see color pages). David Von Schlegell's 42-ft.-long jet delta wings gleamed in the sunlight like anchors for interplanetary fleets. Robert Grosvenor's 24-ft.-long yellow Still No Title lanced downward from a portico of the museum building like a bolt of sunlight, ending a breath-taking eight inches from the pavement. John McCracken's brilliant blue column reflected shades upon shades of the California ethos; Lyman Kipp...
...kidding. Grosvenor Town Coats for the modern man? The fabulous Navy Blue Cashmere Blazer at Howdy's Beefburger Drive-In? A Shaggy Pullover of Finest Shetland Island Wool at a Stones concert? So into the breach steps Mod. "Like, it just happens to correspond to my thought patterns," says Larry, "you know, the way I think...
With a top of the morning to you, Mrs. Guv'nor, Chief Justice Earl Warren, 75, greeted Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, 40, and Nelson Jr., 2, as they crossed paths in London's Grosvenor Square. Warren was on the first leg of a trip to Israel to attend the dedication of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest near Jerusalem. Happy was keeping busy sightseeing with Nelson Jr. and her brood of four by her first marriage, while she waited for the New York legislature to adjourn so Daddy could join them all on a month-long European vacation...