Word: lipchitz
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Mistily Magnetic. In fact, the house is positioned more like a European town house than like the typical suburban American home. The exterior is handsomely faced with slabs of honey-colored Italian travertine. Sculpture by Maillol, Arp, Lipchitz, Moore and Noguchi is placed on a terrace at the back, overlooking the pool. Inside the house, Johnson created a neutral background for art by covering the walls with carpeting dyed to match the travertine...
...Jacques Lipchitz, L.H.D., sculptor...
Ritual Destruction. Soutine had a more difficult time finding his own style than did his fellow refugees from Russian ghetto life, who once they had arrived in Paris, turned toward cubism, like Jacques Lipchitz, or, like Chagall, romanticized the shtetl folklore with fiddlers on the roof. At the time that Lithuanian-born Soutine went to Ceret, he was still in his 20s, all but unknown. There he embarked on a series of extraordinarily dislocated mountain views, with houses and trees piled like limp wads of anthropomorphic soil...
...post-meta physical moment: the dadaist abstractionist Arp Giacometti's existential armature figures, the dynamic welded sculpture of David Smith, and the work of Burgoyne Diller, a precursor of minimalism. Next are the old masters whose common sensibility was formulated before World War II: Picasso, Nevelson, Lipchitz, Calder. Then come two generations of artists who, in Fry's opinion, are at once trying to escape from Renaissance definitions of sculpture and "in revolt against the ways in which older artists have come to terms with their problems...
...help was in assembling the sculpture. Actress Anna Bing Arnold (who performed in the 1930s under the stage name of Anna Kostant) contributed Anna Mahler's show-bizzy Tower of Masks for the entrance to Macgowan Hall. In 1964 the U.C.L.A. Arts Council and Regent Norton Simon bought Lipchitz' Song of the Vowels. The bulk of the collection came from the estate of David E. Bright, a Los Angeles industrialist who died in 1965. Bright left the Moore, a Hepworth, another Lipchitz, and two pieces that are far and away the most popular with the students...