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...Bernhard Heiliger is West Germany's foremost sculptor, but until now U.S. gallerygoers have been able to see bits of his work only in large group shows. Last week his first U.S. one-man exhibition opened at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery. Whether a head, a torso, a bird-like creature, or some abstract shape borrowed from nature, Heiliger sculptures have one common quality: though the artist's hands left them long ago, they still seem to move and change and grow, as if there were something alive inside...
Though he was, along with Albert Ryder, the greatest American painter of his day, he was given only one one-man show in his lifetime, and it was not until he was almost 60 that he won a prize that carried any kind of prestige. Some of his most ambitious paintings were ridiculed, and so little value was placed on his portraits that several, including one of President Hayes, have simply disappeared. At one point, even his native Philadelphia seemed to forget him: when John Singer Sargent came to town and asked to meet Eakins, he got the bewildered reply...
...with new false teeth buy copies of Your New Smile, sold through dental supply houses. But in the main, although sales are tumbling along healthily, it is difficult to say just who does buy most of them. It is simpler to say why the records are made. With a one-man cast and no acoustical problems, talking records can be stamped off and jacketed for as little as 65? apiece, to sell for prices ranging from...
...that untill a substitute line came in half-way through the fourth period, Harvard stank. The passing was terrible, the defense was frighteningly weak, and worst of all, nobody seemed to care enough about the beating Harvard was absorbing to do anything about it. Harvard is not a one-man team. It is a good team. But yesterday it was pathetic...
...century, was influenced by Cezanne and Matisse, returned to become the first U.S. modernist, working in every form from painting to sculpture; after a long illness; in Great Neck, N.Y. Weber believed that "science proves to the mind; art reveals the heart," in 1929 had the first one-man show in New York's Museum of Modern...