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...October the Legion of Honor Palace gave California its first view of the work of Isamu Noguchi, about as "extreme" a sculptor as the U. S. contains. And on exhibition last week in the Palace was a pair of limbless little wooden figurines called "Mr. & Mrs. Technocrat" by Atanas Katchamakoff. On the other hand, star performer of the Progressives in their department store show was grizzled, close-cropped Beniamino Bufano, an artist of unquestioned ability who paints somewhat in the manner of Diego Rivera but whose sculpture looks like that of an Italianate Paul Manship...
Small Sculptor Prize of the Rosenthal China Corp. to the newest U. S. sculptor : Atanas Katchamakoff of Palm Springs, Calif. Sculptor Katchamakoff has been a U. S. sculptor some six weeks, received his final citizenship papers just before the contest closed...
...wirklicher Cowboy." Through the Art Alliance of America he offered in 1930 three prizes, $1,500, $750, $500 for small sculpture "typically American in theme," suitable for reproducing in Rosenthal china and by sculptors living in the U. S. First prize last week went to Atanas Katchamakoff for an amusing little Papoose and Squaw. Simple in detail, it will be inexpensive to cast...
Until January Sculptor Katchamakoff was a Bulgar. Born in Sofia 33 years ago, he practiced law just one year. A plausible talker, he successfully argued himself out of a libel suit for modelling and exhibiting a head of the Mayor of Sofia in his cups. Entering the National Art Academy, he was promptly disowned by his father. In 1922, 1924 he won sculpture prizes in Berlin, Venice, came to the U. S., got a job making models for Hollywood super-spectacles. Came the talkies and the end of such pageants, but Sculptor Katchamakoff was not disheartened. He moved to Palm...
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