Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mahonri Young's sculpture, at the Rehn Gallery, was certainly the best exhibition seen in Manhattan since Jacob Epstein flashed his gauche madonnas on a startled babbittry (TIME, Nov. 28). Those who like to read sermons into clay could speak about the "dignity of toil." Sculptor Young had modeled peasants with sad and sensitive faces, a young girl (Spring in Brittany), Porteuse de Pain, and Porteuse de Poissons, figures of women bent beneath burdens, so as to include not a story but the pitying emotion of a fine novel in their strong and individual faces. His prizefighters were less...
...expended on the most colorless cast. But these murmurs were not news. Knowingly expectant people let themselves into the tiny Princess Theatre for the opening of a play written and performed by Frank Wilson, onetime Harlem* mailman, now title actor in Porgy. Otto Hermann Kahn was there, Max Reinhardt, Sculptor Jo Davidson, able Actress Thimig from the Reinhardt troupe and Mayor James John Walker. Between the acts Mayor Walker ambled nimbly to the stage and praised the piece prodigiously. Which may get him the Negro vote, but will not disguise the fact that Meek Mose, in acting and writing...
...annoyed them when Sculptor Caoudal spread a true scandal about Fanny, saying that she was the nakedest and not the least contaminated of all the artists' models in Paris; but they were delighted when Fanny leaped upon this villain and clawed the collar off his neck. At the end, when Fanny slipped off to the country with her pure but honest well-beloved, interest waned. Bostonians had come to see Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images...
...open, will be followed by a school for girls. They will finally prepare for college, or encourage the talented to enter the school of arts and crafts and the academy of art, yet to be founded. Artists and craftsmen of high repute-Eliel Saarinen,, Finnish architect, Geza Maroti, Hungarian sculptor-will instruct apprentices, form a colony...
When recompleted, Sculptor Baker's enormous woman will be stationed on top of an elevation in the Cherokee Strip, once the last public land in the U. S. Around her will lie a park whose total cost, including the woman herself, will...