Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with an Ax. His sympathy for the underdog aroused, Ziolkowski closed his studio at Hartford. Conn., went to the Black Hills of South Dakota to build his monument as a symbol of the down trodden of the earth. But the late terrible-tempered Harold Ickes, then Secretary of the Interior, snapped at him: "I won't permit you to carve up my mountains." That was not enough to stop Ziolkowski: he bought a mountain...
...John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin). Though the subject lacked action. Trumbull conveyed something of its drama and suppressed excitement in the jagged arrangement of the heads and the flaring banners on the wall. Unlike Trumbull's sparing canvas, the fantastic Historical Monument to the American Republic stretches out to an immense 9 by 13 feet. It was painted 100 years after the birth of the nation by a Massachusetts primitive named Erastus Salisbury Field "to get up a brief history of our country in a monumental form." The monumental form seems...
Shepley was cited: "His monument is the good red brick and mortar of his college...
...good taxpayers all-announced that the 120-acre heart of their splendiferous white elephant, worth some $50,000 a year to California in taxes, had been given to the State of California. A condition of the gift, which includes a Moorish castle: it will be dedicated as a "historical monument," and a memorial to Hearst and his mother Phoebe. California was no shortsighted beneficiary. Its State Park department is even now plotting rubberneck tours at $1 a head...
...exercise was also Picasso's way of working off the melancholy caused by the departure of his companion of eight years, Françoise Gilot, who one day suddenly left, taking their two children with her, announcing: "I was tired of living with a historical monument...