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...finest monumental sculptor in the U. S. Because his family thought the name Anderson (which sounds to Swedes like "Smith" to Englishmen) was too common, it took for a surname the father's nickname ("Mille"). In Paris he became a friend and assistant to the late Auguste Rodin. After World War I he got a job as professor of modeling at the Royal Academy of Stockholm. But the Swedish critics disliked the distortions and fearsome grimaces of his statues, never conceded him a top ranking among Swedish artists. It was not until 1926, when curious Londoners gathered together...
...Boston Public Library. According to the classifications made by Professor Post, French belongs to the "more American" group of sculptors; the continental influence is less discernable in his work than in statues by men like Gutzon Borglum and Barnard, who were strongly affected by the formful litheness of Rodin, the magnificent Frenchman...
...decked with gold furniture from Marie's palace in Bucharest, Marie's crown, coronation robe, and clusters of her jewelry. Pictures had been lent by the Philadelphia and San Francisco Art Museums, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Sam Hill himself had left a collection of Rodin's original drawings and casts, an assortment of Northwest Indian relics, gimcracks from the Mayflower, a 3,000-lb. dud artillery shell, said to be the first fired by the Germans in World War I, a complete reconstruction (in the surrounding grounds) of the Druidic monuments at Stonehenge, England...
...Maillol, size means little. So poised and serene are his figures that even his statuettes seem monumental. No large statue in the show surpasses the 11-inch Leda, of which Rodin said: "In all modern sculpture I do not know of a piece which is as absolutely beautiful, as absolutely pure, as absolutely a masterpiece...
Phaidon Press Art Books, Oxford: RODIN ($3); RUBENS ($2.50); MASTERPIECES OF EUROPEAN PAINTING IN AMERICA...