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Inch by Inch. The work of surveying the mansion, went slowly because for big sections of the house there were no blueprints. To locate old beams, test old brick, discover where generations of workmen had installed gas lines, electric wiring and plumbing, investigators were probing into walls, chipping off plaster, going over everything inch by inch...
...expensive" Blamire said. "Fire inspection rules require steel fire doors, and we'd have to plaster the basement ceiling." As estimated, one fire door would cost about...
...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...
Davey Nelson came back from watching Columbia plaster Rutgers last Saturday with an armload of notes, diagrams, and ideas about Lou Little's 1948 team...
Died. Charles Prendergast, 79, artist brother of the late Impressionist Maurice, reviver of a long-neglected Italian Renaissance technique of painting; in Norwalk, Conn. Prendergast produced gleamingly rich paintings like Persian miniatures by a process called "incised gesso": etching an outline on a plaster-and-glue base, then applying egg tempera and liberal quantities of gold leaf...