Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came a great day in the life of George Grey Barnard. The full scale plaster model of his tremendous peace arch was completed. Sculptor Barnard scraped most of the plaster from his hands, opened his studio doors and invited the world to enter and admire...
...line. Tiptoeing round the vast draughty power house they looked at a towering erection of canvas and wallboard 100 feet high representing the arch. Over the opening was a painted rainbow which will be of colored mosaic in the finished work. Bracing either pier was an intricate iceberg of plaster. Together they contained 53 nine-foot figures-rows of muscular nude young men rising to a barrel-chested Superman with arms outstretched; nursing mothers, old men, children and refugees. Many were individual figures of great effectiveness. Two months ago Sculptor Barnard, with plaster in his hair, tried to explain...
...every season, and it wasn't because of an accident either. I played half one season with three broken ribs and finished up another year with a fractured shoulder. Cutts, our great halfback, got a broken neck a short time before the Yale game. It was placed in a plaster cast, and he was given permission to play. Blagden, our tackle, was packed in ice a week before this crucial game because of an attack of appendicitis, and yet he played. At 2 o'clock the following morning, he was operated...
Some day from a studio in the nearby National Museum Building will come another plaster figure to join the silent party. It will be a long-legged model probably dressed in Eleanor Blue and posed to suggest energy, cheer, simplicity. The face, which in the living original is dominated by a generous, tooth-filled mouth, receding chin and warm, humorous eyes, will be indistinguishable from the faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face...
...glad to see that President Conant has appointed a Committee on Seals, Arms, and Diplomas to deal with doubted legitimacy of Harvard's famous Veritas escutcheon. The baroque plaster and wood emblazoned over the Dunster House Library probably constitutes Complaint No. 1, as it is radically incorrect. When the original designers took their idea to America's greatest heraldic wood carver in 1929 they were politely thrown out of the shop. The craftsman said he would not be party to such nonsense. He proved to his would-be elients that the lozenged shape of the ornament was the heraldic symbol...