Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poetry . . . knew America west of the 100th meridian better than anyone . . . knew even women-even the American woman, even the New York woman, Which is saying much." Here also came the young President Roosevelt, "of infinite dash and originality," glad of admittance. Here Richardson, the architect; Saint-Gaudens, the sculptor; LaFarge and Sargent, the painters. Here also Senator Lodge, the learned historian, man of letters in the old New England tradition...
...pictures and sculpture of Russians, Parisians, Italians, Argentines, Greeks! they saw little work by U. S. students, for fewer of these were included than has been the case for many a year. Among the few were Cameron Burnside, represented by a single picture; Cecil Howard, U. S. sculptor, whose work has recently become popular among British fashionables. Among the paintings, landscapes predominated over interiors; in the sculpture, imaginative groups over simple figures. Other U. S. artists exhibiting were E. H. Brewster, Draper Savage, Constance Bigelow, James D. Herbert...
Moukbil Kemal Bey arrived, recently, in Manhattan to secure sketches and designs for the Mustafa Kemal statue. Naturally he journeyed to Stamford, Conn., and there consulted the famed U. S. sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, and received from him a sketch which, with others, he will take back to Turkey for approval. The definite acceptance of any plan will not be made for the present; but there is every prospect, it was said, of a $20,000 statue of the great Mustafa, "made in America," adorning the city of Angora...
...major interests in this volume lies in Mr. Train's fleeting sketches of subordinate characters? old Uncle Shiras; Doctor Dominick, "the most valuable man in the world;" Degoutet, outspoken sculptor. Most of them may be recognized as more or less thinly veiled snapshots from real life.* All of them are, it must be confessed, more interesting than the comparatively insignificant hero and heroine...
...Everett went. At the humble birthplace of the sculptor, he carried on his research. From the depths of a cellar, four statues were brought up to light. They were magnificent figures* of Washington. But, alas, stark nude...