Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RODIN : IMMORTAL PEASANT-Anne Leslie-Prentice-Hall ($3). Lively biography of a lively subject, the lusty, redheaded, great French sculptor, whose eventual fame at 60 left undimmed the traits which prompted Robert Louis Stevenson's wife to call him "a horrid...
...desperate designs upon a landscape lonely, hostile and magnificent. Its technique is the technique of the chase. Through most of its turbulent length it is excitingly devised, brilliantly photographed and filled to overflowing with Nick Carter characters who suddenly take on larger-than-life proportions, as if sculptured by Rodin...
With five children to support, funds were low in the Hoffman house. Malvina Hoffman earned money to continue her art studies by designing book jackets, wall paper, linoleum. In Paris she became a pupil, later a good friend of aging Auguste Rodin, won her first real fame with a bronze of Anna Pavlova as a dancing bacchante. Her best known works since then have been three heads of Ignace Paderewski (The Statesman, The Artist, The Friend), the colossal stone figures over the entrance to London's Bush House and the recumbent crusader that is Harvard's War Memorial...
...Once while waiting for bewhiskered Auguste Rodin to keep an appointment at his studio, Sculptor Hoffman absentmindedly squeezed two sausage-shaped rolls of clay in her hand, was amazed to find that the pressure of her fingers had accidentally formed two upright figures, embracing. Said Rodin: "This is one of those accidents which one must catch and transform into science. You will keep this and model this group one-half life-size and cut it in marble - but before you do this you must study for five years." Five years later Malvina Hoffman finished her statue, called it Column...
Sturdy, broad-shouldered Carl Milles is 60, was once a pupil of Rodin, is one of the world's most respected artists. Noted for his unerring sense of design, especially impressive in his many famed fountains, Sculptor Milles was dismayed when the Rockefeller Center management rejected his plans for an Adam & Eve fountain in Manhattan's Radio City, filed a $15,000 suit for his time & trouble...