Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little girl came to the city for a stage career. A French roué tried his best and worst to help her to it. She selected instead a youthful and engaging sculptor. Novelty came in the wistful naivety of the ingenuous heroine. You believed, as did the sculptor, her story...
...justice, for being jongleur who, tongue in cheek, execute their insolent pastiches, sing their thin songs with nothing in their heads but a bitter and windy laughter. These critics have listened to the compositions of Composers Ravel and Satie, whose music laughs at music, have seen the works of Sculptor Nadelman, whose sculpture laughs at sculpture, until the accumulation of all this malign mirth has inspired them to plead: "If we must laugh, let us laugh honestly. This mockery is unworthy of the staunch hearts. Where is the belly-shaking-chuckle of Aristophanes? Where in Music, in Sculpture...
...past fortnight, Sculptor Nadelman has held an exhibition at the Scott and Fowles Gallery, Manhattan. The critics who visited it were prepared for the famed, familiar ribaldries of this satirist in clay-his grotesquely vivacious figures fully clothed, often painted as well, postured in the more ridiculous attitudes pf contemporary life. These, to be sure, were there, but the prudent, hurrying over them as if they had been jokes in Holy Writ, discovered, in addition, many heads of classic purity, some exquisite busts of children, a big torso in the antique manner. Upon these things lay the lustre...
...less understanding hand. . . . The work of Gutzon Borglum has a soul. . . . And no one can lift his eyes to the majestic head of Robert Edward Lee on Stone Mountain's breast and doubt it for a moment. ... I personally am of the opinion that no other living sculptor is so ably fitted to carve this equestrian monument as is Gutzon Borglum...
...unequivocally that our assent to the withdrawal of the requisition does not effect the final disposition of the criminal cases against Borglum, which disposition will be left absolutely with the State authorities." To refute the impression that no man in the U. S. would now have dealings with him, Sculptor Borglum announced a new project, said he had entered a contract to carve the figures of Washington and Lincoln on a mountain in South Dakota...