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...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...
They were the work of a man ten years dead, but still roundly reviled and praised. Some art critics have ranked Gaston Lachaise with such recent greats as Rodin and Maillol, and just before Lachaise died, Manhattan's high-powered, streamlined Museum of Modern Art honored him with the sort of retrospective show it reserves for its own short list of probable immortals...
Died. Charles Despiau, 72, French sculptor, pupil of famed Auguste Rodin, sponsor during the Nazi occupation of Hitler's third-rate court sculptor Arno Breker; in Paris...
Last week some seldom-seen Rodin drawings were on view in a Manhattan gallery; others were included in a Rodin show at Washington's National Gallery. Visitors were inclined to agree with Rilke that Rodin had achieved greatness through the "free play" of his "quick and trained hand." The drawings looked free as the wind-and actually were just as bound as the wind is by nature. Rodin drew just what he saw. "After all," remarked the old man once, "the artist has only to trust his eyes...