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Serb Chucovich's Serb trustees first awarded the commission to Yugoslavian Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, withdrew it when local patriots and Federal art officials protested that a U. S. sculptor should have the job. Obligingly the trustees fixed on Denver's own Maillol-trained Sculptor Arnold Ronnebeck. But when Ronne-beck's design of a female figure cradling a covered wagon in one arm came before the Municipal Art Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick...
...Zorach and against Ronnebeck, the Municipal Art Commission stuck to its guns for a while in the face of clamor by the trustees, the committee and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton that Denver should have Ronnebeck or nothing. Leader of the Commission was fiftyish Anne Evans, weathered, spirited daughter of the first territorial governor of Colorado, patron of the summer theatre festival at Central City (TIME, July 26). Less exacting Commissioners began to waver when local ar- chitects declared that the Zorach memorial would not fit into Denver's $1,000,000 Civic Center. Then Mayor Stapleton dismissed...
Last week the mayor's two appointees voted "aye" to the Ronnebeck design, carried it over another member's silence and Miss Evans' "no." Next day a spokes-man for Denver's women's clubs snorted that they had been "basely betrayed." Commissioner Evans resigned. Said she: "Mr. Ronnebeck's conception of Rising City ... is childish. . . . The sculptural forms seem to be commonplace. . . . To me it is clear that the Commission was packed...
...representing a giant Prometheus bearing the fire of truth, in pulsating Mexican color. Wrote Critic Arthur Millier of the Los Angeles Times: "The wall has been energized by the genius of Orozco until it lives as probably no wall in the United States today." Long-legged Arnold Ronnebeck of the Denver Times was even more enthusiastic. Added Sumner Spaulding, architect of Pomona's dining hall...
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