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...pair of insurance brokers who had been hard-nosed, hard-skating forwards at Harvard. To make matters worse, Goalie Larry Palmer was knocked out with an injured knee. Subbing for him was a bushy-browed, strapping (6 ft. 1 in., 200 Ibs.) second-stringer named Jack McCartan, a former University of Minnesota All-America who liked to talk more about his feats as a college third baseman (.438 batting average) than as a goalie...
...were getting together on a Treasury Department commission of $7,500 each for collaboration on "a harmonious pair of sculptures" for the façade of The Bronx Post Office in New York City. Sculptors Rudy & Kreis were winners in an open competition in which Sculptors Paul Manship, Edward McCartan and Maurice Sterne judged some 400 models...
...vast sculpture court. Few displays in the U. S. have compared-with it in scope and quality- some 546 pieces were shown by such famed artisans as Robert Aitken, Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Stirling Calder, Allan Clark., Hunt Diederich, Charles Grafly, Malvina Hoffman, Gaston Lachaise, Aristide Maillol, Paul Manship. Edward McCartan, Robert Tait McKenzie, Charles Gary Rumsey, Mahonri Young, William Zorach. Those who inspected them were in full accord with Borough President Henry Hesterberg of Brooklyn, who in his opening address made the forthright comment: "This to my mind is a very great proposition." But fine, frequent and varied...
...readers, Gertrude Stein is shown with a face rugged, calm, confident above a stolid mass which scarcely defines itself as a body. There are many other works by individual chisellers, Hunt Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Leo Lentelli, Henry Augustus Lukeman, Edward McCartan, Eli Nadelman, the Piccirilli brothers, Lorado Taft, William Zorach. . . . If the modern U. S. lacks the glory of a sculptural tradition as deeply embedded and fertile as the Classic or Gothic, it does have a number of sincere experimentalists who keep the art from stagnation, who seek the expression...
...They backed up their enthusiasm by sending a liberal check to cover the cost of the project." Pieces in Mr. Barrie's shipment were by John F. Carlson, George Elmer Browne, John Gregory, Charles H. Davis, Frederick Ballard Williams, Harriett W. Frishmuth, Hobart Nichols, Edith B. Parsons, Edward McCartan, Mario Korbell. The total art sales of the fair were about...