Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sculpture at Expo is mostly co temporary, explains Arts Adviser J. Jacques Besner, because "every exposition provides a chance for the world to take inventory of man's progress. Back in 1900, Paris showed Rodin and all those boys, so we felt that in 1967, we owed it to contemporary artists to show what they could do." Canada's Expo corporation commissioned 40 Canadian sculptors to design $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to fill the central promenades and the Canadian and theme pavilions; Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more...
...gifted sculptress Meta Warrick Fuller (a student of Rodin) has a small plaster statue inscribed "In Memory of Mary Turner as a Silent Protest Against Mob Violence." Mary Turner, whose crime was that of vocally protesting the lynching of her innocent husband, was in turn lynched by a mob in Georgia on May 7, 1918. The standard account continues: "Mary Turner was pregnant and was hung by her feet. Gasoline was thrown on her clothing and it was set on fire. Her body was cut open and her infant fell to the ground with a little cry, to be crushed...
...idea," explains Carter, "was to ask for the moon and hope for the best." Needless to say, the moon was not always delivered. The Louvre was not about to lend the Victory of Samothrace, but the Philadelphia Museum of Art came through with Rodin's 21-ton The Burghers of Calais. Italy was stingy with its Renaissance masters, saved its Donatello for its own pavilion...
...first abstract sculpture on the capital's Mall, which will eventually be blooming with them: Hostess Gwen Cafritz is donating an Alexander Calder stabile-mobile that will be installed in midsummer, while the Hirschhorn Collection is planning to install a whole garden full of modern works from Rodin to George Rickey...
...floor. The box is empty and the work is untitled. Ellsworth Kelly, 43, otherwise a hard-edge painter of interest, displays an L-shaped item that dully fulfills its title, Blue White Angle. Paul Frazier, 44, represents himself with Space Manifold #5, an irregular cruciform abstraction that would kiss Rodin off as a sentimentalist...