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Sculptor Reuben Nakian is a short, bristling rock of a man with a pronounced stutter and an utter inability to feel anything mildly. As a rising artist back in the '30s, he nursed a great passion for contemporary heroes. He did powerful portrait busts of some of the men around F.D.R.-Henry Wallace, Rex Tugwell, General Hugh Johnson-and modeled Babe Ruth into an eight-foot giant with the air of an arrogant Hercules. Critics admired his work, but then something happened and Nakian all but disappeared...
...months in a small office in the Department of Commerce Building in Washington Sculptor Reuben Nakian has been modeling the heads of New Dealers, chosen for their "plastic value" rather than official importance. Last week he paused long enough to give his opinion of his sitters...
...Manhattan's first municipal art show, sponsored by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The artists selected their own exhibits, many of which were old to private gallery visitors. Prices were not openly quoted but sales people rustled lists running from $10 to a reported $25,000 for such pieces as Nakian's Babe Ruth, Zorach's Mother & Child...
...Ault, Peggy Bacon, Emile Branchard, Alexander Brook, Glenn 0. Coleman, Stuart Davis, Hunt Diederich, Duncan Ferguson, Ernest Fiene, Arnold Friedman, Wood Gaylor, Anne Goldthwaite, Bernar Gussow, Samuel Halpert, George O. ("Pop") Hart, Stefan Hirsch, Morris Kantor, Bernard Karfiol, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Richard Lahey, Robert Laurent, Louis Lozowick, Reuben Nakian, Jules Pascin, Joseph Pollet, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Dorothy Varian, A. Walkowitz, Max Weber, Marguerite and William Zorach...