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...happily gave Director Katz a conducted tour of the treasures that will soon be his. The statues dwarf their diminutive owner. In the entry Hugo Robus' green bronze Song seemed about to chirp a childish "May I take your coat?" At one side of the powder room stood Nadelman's painted bronze Woman, attentive as a lady-in-waiting. At the other side arched Robus' rainbowlike, semi-abstract Woman Washing Her Hair. The washroom offered a brace of sporting dogs by Hunt Diederich, and in its paneled lounge stood Epstein's mournful, supplicating Hannah...
...VIOLA M. NADELMAN Riverdale...
...sculptor's restless mind was bound to lead him into new ways of expression. He moved to Manhattan and took it by storm in 1917 with an exhibition of a totally different kind: a roomful of carved comments on modern life. Now Nadelman's slimmed-down Venuses did high kicks, his Jupiters wore boiled shirts and derby hats, his Muses played the piano. Critic Henry McBride described the show as "culture to the breaking point." It all but sold...
...Quiet Game. Two years afterwards Nadelman married a rich woman, settled down in a Riverdale, N.Y. mansion. When friends came to call and asked "what he was doing," he proudly showed them his raspberries. Neighbors knew him as a man who liked a quiet game of bridge...
...secret, Nadelman was developing a new form of sculpture. His final works, rescued from the obscurity of his Riverdale attic, were the hits of last week's show. Made mostly in plaster or papier-mâché (a mixture of paste and paper pulp), they ranged from life-size figures to tiny dolls. Proof of his brilliance lay in the fact that the tiny ones, of which he did hundreds, had a monumental quality. With their archaic smiles, compactness and classic grace of pose, they looked like quick sketches for heroic statues. But that was not Nadelman...