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Died. William Zorach, 79, celebrated U.S. sculptor, a Lithuania-born immigrant who began as a Fauvist and Cubist painter in oils, in 1922 gave up his brush for a sculptor's chisel and revived the ancient art of carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine...
...native of Lithuania, he came to this country at the age of three, attended public school in Brooklyn, and received his B.A. (1924), M.A. (1926) and Ph. D (1929) from Columbia...
...Lithuania-born, Brooklyn-bred, the young immigrant was raised in a Williamsburg slum. Later Shahn attended art schools in the U.S. and Europe, and over the years evolved his own distinctive style, winning fame as a painter of biting social comment, somewhere between caricature and fantasy. His work has taken many forms. During World War II, he drew posters for the U.S. Office of War Information. He has also done murals and stage sets. In 1956-57, exercising a kind of poetic license, he lectured on art as Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry at Harvard. Many of Ben Shahn...
...secret-policeman-movie-narrator, who, at the outset, is confronted with Rita Tushingham as an orphaned Russian peasant girl. Miss Tushingham has wisely made a habit of playing lasses of English extraction, but by the mere application of a little makeup and a babushka she become as Russian as Lithuania...
...youngest of the cubists at 24, he is half a century later one of the elders of modern art. With Picasso 84 and Chagall 78, Lipchitz is the third in a line of living patriarchs who led the 20th century artistic transformation. As an eight-year-old youngster in Lithuania, Lipchitz made clay toys to give girls, says he, "so they would be nice to me. You see, I started sculpting for love." The dolls of his youth have ripened into shattered torsos, tortured totems, writhing beasts...