Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After great uncertainty the council chose a design by Sculptor Alexandre Zeitlin and Architect Robert Lafferty, both of Manhattan. The model shows Gompers standing on a triangular pedestal with workingmen at each corner, looking up at him, shining searchlights upon him at night. President Green, awarding no contract to the prize winners, explained that the model "might be modified somewhat to suit the ideas of the Council...
...Atlantic City a score of sculptors and architects journeyed hopefully with their models which they set around the sun parlor of the Ambassador Hotel. The executive council made inspections, heard explanations and descriptions. Plain men themselves, they were puzzled by the artistic conceptions of Labor placed before them. Cried President William Green: "I'm wearied of always seeing Labor pictured bearing a burden. Labor is free." Remarked another troubled councilman: "Some of these would be all right if the sculptor could be chained to the job to tell people what it's all about. But what could...
Manhattan now has an artistic Dreyfuss case. Last week there went to the chambers of Supreme Court Justice Curtis A. Peters, one Albert Dreyfuss, sculptor-49, stocky, German-looking, black mustache, baldish head, a harassed expression. He came for a private hearing to establish his sanity so that he could sculp without interference...
Neither the nose nor the keenness escaped Sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1740-1828), whose proud, grim marble bust is generally conceded to be the best, most expressive Washington likeness. U. S. patriots and artists were glad last week to hear that it had been purchased for a U.S. client by Manhattan Dealer Jonce I. McGurk, that it would soon be shipped to the U. S. Rumored buyers: John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Percy Avery Rockefeller. Rumored price...
...Sculptor Houdon was chosen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as "the best [sculptor] in any of the European States," to do a statue of Washington. With Franklin he traveled to the U. S., stayed two weeks at Mount Vernon, took measurements, made plaster casts. He is said to have sought vainly for the desired facial expression until he saw Washington dismiss an avaricious horse trader...