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...curt dispatch came last week out of France: old Aristide Maillol, one of the leaders of modern sculpture, had been killed in an auto accident near his home in Banyuls, on the Mediterranean near the Spanish border...
Bearded, blue-eyed Aristide Maillol (pronounced Ma-yoll) had reached the great age of 82. For a generation and more he had held an artistic eminence taken over from his friend and early supporter, the late, great Auguste Rodin. Maillol's serene, monumentally detached sculpture was the antithesis of Rodin's flowing, literary, romantic work. Greece was Maillol's spiritual home-"Is this not Greek?" he once exclaimed of his studio, strewn with broken casts, plaster limbs, stony shards. But Maillol was no antiquarian copyist; the resemblance of his work to the Greek rested in his feeling...
Chosen to represent the modern painters, Picasso has long occupied the focal point of international art controversy because of his fondness for new and unconventional styles. Maillol, former student under Rodin, has done much to revive the classic traditions of sculptoring by his work in bronze and marble...
While the selections of works by Picasso and Maillol is numerically small, the display of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural models and pictures has been made quite extensive in order to point out the versatility of the new school of American home designing. Strawinsky's musical contributions to modern art will be illustrated by a chamber music concert to be held in the Fogg courtyard on May 7 at 4:30 o'clock...
...analytic lectures on these artists and their works will be given at 4:30 o'clock as follows: Professor Arthur T. Morritt on Strawinsky, May 6; Professor William R. W. Kochler on Picasso, May 11; Gordon Washburn, Director of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, on Maillol, May 13; and Professor Frederick B. Deknatol on Wright...