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...portrait sculptor, Jo Davidson had no peer in the U.S., and his bounce was as remarkable as his skill. He set himself no less a task than to sculpt "a plastic history of my time," and the hundreds of notables who sat for him ranged from Joseph Conrad to Frank Sinatra, from Gandhi to Mussolini. A little more than a year ago, at 68, bush-bearded Jo Davidson journeyed to Israel and found inspiration for some of his best busts. The new nation, he said, "confirmed my belief that life is eternal. It was like a phoenix rising...
...wrote Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre in a catalogue introduction which sometimes made sense and sometimes didn't, "to sculpt is to take the fat off space...
...makes the creation of works of the highest art his sole and supreme business in life needs before all things a woman to be his servant, his mother, his nurse, his devotee, his housekeeper, and not at all necessarily his bedfellow. . . . As Watts could paint and sculpt in the grand manner as easily as other men can walk or talk, he must be ranked as one of the most fortunate of mortals and yet the most dependent on women...
...Epstein career has proceeded by a mounting series of sensations. It began in 1908. Commissioned to sculpt decorations for the British Medical Association Building, Epstein spent 14 frantic months suspended on a scaffold high above London's busy Strand. When the scaffolding was removed from his first five oversized nudes, the storm broke. Wrote the Evening Standard on page 1: "It is unnecessary to say any more than that they are a form of statuary which no careful father would wish his daughter, or no discriminating young man, his fiancée, to see." Result: for thousands of careful...
...Hollywood homes. He painted murals of horses and gazelles for William Haines, a mural for Leila Hyams, decorated pianos for Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Lilyan Tashman. He illustrated Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant and an Anthology of Immoral Poems for the Walpole Press. One Sunday, he decided to sculpt. Lacking materials, he fashioned a statue from coat hangers, the hinges of an ironing board, some mud. His ambition is to give California an open-air windowless architecture...