Word: sculptor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small village of Elmwood, Ill., there occurred last week a praiseworthy event. In a park the Girls' Glee Club sang "Illinois" and "America the Beautiful"; many "midwestern pioneers" over the age of 75 and old residents of central Illinois sat cheerfully in a grandstand. Several persons, including famed Sculptor Lorado Taft, made speeches. Then there was unveiled a bronze group statue, The Pioneers, by famed Sculptor Taft...
Elmwood, Ill., was the town in which Sculptor Taft had spent his boyhood.* Proud of their well-known onetime citizen and proud too of the pioneers, less spectacular but no less hardy than their pacemakers beyond the Mississippi, who came long ago to settle in the "middle border," Sculptor Taft conceived the idea of making a statue for the village green, requiring for his work no payment. It was nonetheless necessary for Elmwood's 1200 denizens to raise $17,000 to pay for the material costs of the statue and the cost of erecting it. This they...
...American Prix de Rome is not a horse race but a prize, valued at $8,000, yearly awarded to one U. S. painter and one U. S. sculptor. If he wins the prize, an artist goes to Rome and lives there at the rate of $1,600 a year for three years; his models, tuition and transportation are paid for. Last week, this year's winners were announced; one was Donald M. Mattison, student at the up-and-coming Yale School of Fine Arts, who won the prize for painting. The other was Sculptor David K. Rubins who works...
David Rubins, the 25-year-old prize-winning sculptor, chattered with pleasure when told of his good luck. He said that his father was a Minneapolis mural decorator, that he had learned most about sculpture from his present employer and that he had four years ago won the Beaux Arts Paris Prize, which had already given him one year's study abroad...
Master Nicolaus, the sculptor of this announcement, who according to documentary evidence was called in 1467 from Strassburg to Vienna in order to execute. The Emperor's Tomb at St. Stephen's Cathedral, is probably identical with Nicolaus von Leyden, the sculptor of the two remarkable busts of a Prophet and a Sibyl in the former Chancellery at Strassburg, casts of which are in the Germanic Museum...