Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here, until last year,-Stockbridge artists displayed their wares. Dean of the colony, of course, was Sculptor Daniel Chester French. Every colonist, every tourist, knew his Minute Man at Concord, N. H. It was in his Stockbridge studio that he modeled the great Lincoln of the Memorial at Washington. The design of the Minute Man was accepted in 1873. Last week, his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, viewed with pride his latest figure in bronze. It was called Whence, Whither, Wherefore. As chairman of the exhibition, Daughter could draw attention to Father's fine mastery of detail. But she allowed...
...blind, sharp ears are given and sensitive fingers; those who cannot hear must use their eyes to make up for being deaf. Great musicians have been deaf; to sculptors, lack of hearing should surely prove no handicap. Thus, Mrs. Louise Wilder, deaf and somewhat famed sculptor of babies, last week indicated some of the advantages which she has derived from her deficiency. "Having been deaf for fourteen years I have learned to work entirely by myself never hearing the disturbing noises that bother so many artists in big cities. While others must go to the country for solitude, I have...
...Lido Girl is a monstrosity. It tells about a Greenwich Village filly who inspires a poet to write a book of poems, also a sculptor to make a nude statue, "The Lido Girl." She then goes around offering herself as inspiration to all and sundry. Finally, leaving a lover panting on the stage, she goes away to Australia...
Metal work has fallen now into comparative disrepute. Once, when kings wore crowns, a goldsmith was as good as a sculptor, and usually was one. Today, with the vastly increased usefulness of metal, there has been a corresponding decrease in its popularity as an artistic medium. There are few good iron masters in the U. S.; the best known is Hunt Diederich whose works are popular in the homes of millionaires. The technique of iron work is exceedingly complicated: every expert has his own preferences in melting, moulding, dry-casting, wet-casting, as every etcher has his special tricks. Edgar...
...came to the university. Dismayed to find that the art object had been smashed in transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father had been unable to accomplish. Sculptor Taft's most famed work is probably the Fountain of Time on the Midway, Chicago...