Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ivan Mestrovic, a Jugo Slav sculptor of international reputation has loaned one piece of statuary, two carved wood paneis and six drawings to the Fogg Art Museum. In addition the Jugo Slav Government has loaned a marble portrait statue by the sculptor of his mother...
...When Sculptor Gutzon Borglum quarreled with the committee in charge of the Memorial which is being cut into the front of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Mar. 2 et seq.) and Augustus Lukeman was appointed in his place, many people thought that the long squabble had been buried at last with the Confederate dead which the Memorial is to commemorate. True, there were those who suggested that Sculptor Lukeman was better fitted to carve epitaphs on tombs and chisel dates on cornerstones than to model soldiers, but such people were laughed down...
...Henry Louis Smith, President of Washington and Lee, to John W. Davis and other noted southern gentlemen. He stated in no uncertain terms that, though he did not pretend to be an art critic, he had seen pictures of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, and that Sculptor Lukeman's figures did not look anything like them. Dr. Alderman replied: "I think the Jackson figure thoroughly unsatisfactory. It does not suggest Stonewall Jackson to me in the slightest." . . . And an old squabble lifted its head again...
Died. Perch H. Fitzgerald, 96, intimate and biographer of Charles Dickens, in London. Litterateur, painter, sculptor, he was founder of the famed "Boz Club" and a friend of Carlyle...
...from factory chimneys and shaken at intervals by sluggish trolley cars, there stands in Cleveland a building known as Slovenian Hall-rendezvous for exiled Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians. Last week this hall blazed with light and wit. The Slovenians of Cleveland entertained their most widely celebrated countryman, Ivan Mestrovic, sculptor. Ivan Zorman, spokesman for Cleveland Slovenians, was toastmaster; other prominent citizens-John Gornik, Frank Tomic, Rev. George Petrovic, Bojeslav Mihalievic, W. M. Milliken- spoke. In the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sculptor Mestrovic's work stood on exhibit...