Word: mitzie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock the Mercury drove me to what had once been one of Europe's finest polo grounds. There was Tito, now in a flashy riding habit, trotting his handsome white mare, Mitzi. He put her into a gallop, came towards me at full tilt. As he reined up I said: "I hear you like to fish, Marshal." "We go fishing," he said. Briskly he swung Mitzi around and rode off to the villa. By the time we reached the rowboats which would take us to his launch, Tito had made another quick change and appeared in a beige business...
...American entries alone provided dozens of provocative contrasts. From such hard-to-make and hard-to-take abstractions as David Smith's tortuous steel Cello Player (the work of a onetime war-plant welder), visitors could turn to such literary hardware as Mitzi Solomon's aluminum Family of Man Totem. Among the best of the relatively representational items were Alfeo Faggi's leggy, high-breasted Eva, Koren Der Harootian's Slave, Burr Miller's classic marble nude La Victoire, and William Steig's tiny, self-effacing Elderly...
...Mitzi's prone, aluminum Lovers (TIME, May 5, 1947) was almost embarrassingly specific, but her bronze Eve (see cut) showed the highly literary kind of generalization Mitzi was after. Eve looked a little pregnant; the applelike belly was inlaid with a brass circle and what looked like veins. "I wanted a feeling of built-in guilt," said Mitzi...
Lacking Maldarelli's subtlety in sculpture, Mitzi makes up for it in wit, a wealth of ideas, and a willingness to be laughed at even when she is dead-earnest. The hit of her show was a model for a 114-ft. Family of Man Totem that she thought would look well in front of the U.N. building. ("People told me I was a fool to try it, but I said if I wanted to be diplomatic I wouldn't be a sculptor.") Among the most entertaining exhibits was a bulbous Woman-Shaped Vessel seated in a bird...
Sometimes, Mitzi says, she is afraid of getting to be 40. "I think maybe I'll look back and realize my work was tenth-rate. But meanwhile, I've got to keep hammering. It comes straight out of my nervous system. I'll probably die of a short circuit...