Word: rodin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paintings, including masterpieces by Rodin, Whistler, and Roosetti, are included in the gift which museum authorities estimate have actually doubled the size of the original Fogg collection. Winthrop also included $100,000 in his bequest to care for the art objects...
...Fifth Avenue, the Chicago Lincoln, Boston's Shaw Memorial, and the memorial figure of grief in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery, beneath which Henry Adams now lies buried with his wife, all show Saint-Gaudens' size. Critics are apt to regard his art, like Rodin's, as more pictorial than sculptural-it looks modeled rather than molded, and seems to hold some of the softness of clay. But it is art which exerts a grip on millions of imaginations...
Died. George Kolbe, 70, German sculptor whose pretty-girl nudes attracted U.S. collectors in the '30s; in Berlin. Known as "Germany's Rodin," Kolbe exhibited in many European and U.S. museums, wound up as a sculptor of Nazi folk...
...editing, Stieglitz was fighting. No self-respecting art gallery would show photographs, so he opened his own with the help of his growing circle of admirers. Along with photographers, he introduced most of the pioneers of modern art to the U.S. Among them were Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec. Rodin, Picasso and Matisse. He fought for home talent too; Max Weber, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth and Georgia O'Keeffe (whom he later married) all rose to fame through him. But Stieglitz always insisted he was no dealer. He never sold a painting unless...
...before Daniel again managed so lively looking a bronze as the Minute Man, but his fame was already as secure as the statue itself. He made as much as $80,000 in a year. His sculpture did not have the clean perfection of the Greeks or the fire of Rodin, but it was recognizably romantic and faintly classical-a popular blend. Daniel achieved his greatest sculptural triumph-the Lincoln Memorial statue...