Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limited to 50 members. To the vacancy left by Elihu Vedder, classical painter, it elected John Charles Van Dyke, demolisher of the Rembrandt tradition (TIME, Oct. IS). Professor Van Dyke was also elected a Vice President of the National Institute, along with Louis Betts, painter, and Robert Aitken, sculptor. Arnold Brunner, the medallist, was made Treasurer of the Institute. The Institute may have 50 members. Each year it awards a gold medal for achievement in some fine art. This year the medal went to Edwin H. Blashfield, President of the National Academy of Design...
Bryant Baker (Anderson Galleries), British sculptor, has done busts of George Harvey, Pershing, Roosevelt, Lloyd George, Henry Cabot Lodge, Taft, Auckland Geddes, John Hays Hammond, Edward VII. The retiring Ambassador Harvey said of the sculptor, "I consider Mr. Baker a great sculptor, and he is generally so regarded in England...
...Rome, the U. S. is represented for the first time in a separate section at the Second Biennial Exposition of Fine Arts, which opened in the Palazzo di Belli Arti. The American High Commissioner is Frederick E. Triebel, sculptor, assisted by Blashfield, French, MacMonnies, Barnard, Pennell, Dielman, Hassam, Melchers and other representative artists...
...president of Radcliffe, Miss Ellen F. Pendleton, president of Wellesley. Dr. Samuel W. Stratton, president of the Institute of Technology, the Honorable Sir Charles Davidson, former Chief Justice of Canada. Judge Robert Grant '73 of the board of overseers of the University, and Mr. Cyrus E. Dallin, the famous sculptor, and his wife...
...esthetic gods of yester-year go fast. Rodin (died 1921) was only a sentimental impressionist in sculpture, according to the critics of insurgence. The great names of today were unknown a decade ago. The post-impressionist sculptors who have received the critical accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids...