Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...completely furnished royal palace, eight feet high, and everything in it is on a scale of one inch to a foot. Thumbnail paintings by Orpen, Sargent, Lavery, Cope, Holliday, of the Academy; murals by Nicholson; decorations by Edmund Dulac; etchings by Stanley Anderson; a staircase by Frampton, the sculptor; miniature books, with hand-written extracts by over a hundred British authors, including an original play by Barrie; music specially composed by Dame Ethel Smyth and other great ones; replicas of the royal jewels by Miss Winifred Whiteside, a 19-year-old miniaturist; tiny grand piano, Rolls-Royce car, typewriters, telephones...
...GRAND TOUR-Romer Wilson -Knopf ($2.50). When a sculptor genius plays with the inkpot, unusual things are apt to happen; the grand tour of Alphonse Marichaud in the foreign field of the written word is extraordinary. Letters to a friend -to a mistress-sharp, vivid, merry, little incidents-characterizations of people, of places as clean and telling as if they were cut on a copper plate-a startling potpourri of wit, vigor, irony, tragedy, acute observation - self-portrait of Marichaud himself that ranks among the few convincing descriptions of genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with...
...small but charmingly graceful and dignified structure. The city of San Francisco donated the site in Golden Gate Park. The building will house a permanent art collection, chiefly of French art. Rodin, before he died, selected for it 30 sculptures including two of his own. The California sculptor, Arthur Putnam, is generously represented. Gobelin tapestries and Sèvres vases were contributed by the French Government, and the Queens of Rumania, Yugoslavia and Greece sent examples of their respective national arts. Marshal Joffre laid the cornerstone; Marshal Foch planted a tree in the garden of the "palace...
Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud), French novelist, sculptor, painter, musician, Academician and Naval officer (Jan. 14, 1850). Author of Le mariage de Loti, Le Roman d'un Spahi, Pêcheur d'lslande, Mon Frère Yves and other colorful novels, frequently drawn from his own experiences in the tropics. Loti's literary influence waned perceptibly during his last years...
...subject" as Sir William Orpen's painting To the Unknown British Soldier. Gill's work represents Christ with a seven-thonged whip, driving before him a woman with a vanity case, a man with a pawnbroker's emblem, men in top hats and frock coats. The sculptor explained: " We still have money-changers in England...