Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleep in his babyhood by Negro spirituals, and had played with little slave boys on his father's old plantation, so he recently felt the urge to do something big for the Negro. The bronze statue of "The Good Darky," completed last week by Hans Schuler, Baltimore sculptor, was the result. It depicts a Negro, old and stoop-shouldered, with shabby clothes, humbly and faithfully tipping his dusty hat. It will be dedicated in the spring. Perhaps, when the modern Negro sees it, he will be insulted. Perhaps some jester in Manhattan will erect a statue...
...long, na-row-beamed, flattish-decked vessels, modifications of the original roundish-decked "whalebacks." The "whalebacks" were so eminently fitted for transporting bulk cargoes like ore, coal and grain that they became world-famed. So now, in popular usage, "whaleback" is often wrongly applied to any lake carrier. Sculptor Daniel Chester French (designer of the Lincoln at Washington, the John Harvard at Cambridge) followed this popular conception when, in his symbolic group before the unwashed Cleveland postoffice, he placed a whaleback on the arm of Commerce to typify modern lake traffic...
This man, lamous as a sculptor, architect, musician, mechanician engineer, philosopher, but particularly as a painter, was the son of a Florentine lawyer, born out of wedlock by a mother of humble station. From early age he showed that he possessed the spark which was to burst forth into the flame of genius. He was not one of those artists of the Renaissence who sought to revive the ancient glories of art by the imitation of Greek and Roman models . He was a tireless student of nature and from it he drew the subtile play of light and shade...
...Sculptor Harold P. Erskine, of Manhattan, also an habitué of Africa, tendered to the American Museum a bust of his friend, Akeley, gaunt of jaw, shaggy of head with elephant scars on his cheek...
Died. Carl Ethan Akeley, 62, explorer, naturalist, sculptor; in the Belgian Congo, of hemorrhage...