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* A board of 18, that has included the editors of the Freeman; Economists Leo Wolman, Ludwig Von Mises and Leonard Read; Importer Alfred Kohlberg: Armstrong Cork Board Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr.; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Vice President W. F. Peter, and others. The Freeman is also in debt...
The son of a Swedish tailor, Henning began as a painter but found himself molding handfuls of stucco into tiny figures. The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory offered him a job and for 16 years he turned out lifelike figurines.
But Henning wanted something more. In France he had been impressed by Rodin and Maillol; he had also read the love poems of Ovid. He began to develop a style of his own with small statues of intertwined lovers in clay. He was urged to do major pieces for exhibition...
More & more, Henning has restricted his work to sculptures of women. He works with very few models; when he finds one he likes, he keeps her for a long time, paying her by the month. One he kept for ten years, another for seven.
Women, says Henning, are not for the inexperienced. A young artist's apprenticeship should be spent studying the male body, "with all the muscles you don't see on the woman." In fact, says Henning, "students should not be allowed to have female models-except maybe on Sundays...