Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person, he was short and rugged. His square white beard made him look " like the work of a cubist sculptor." He was little given to making speeches, but when he spoke his words were blunt, honest and logical. His manner and his habits were simple and old fashioned. It is recorded that for many years after he came into prominence Mrs. Nelson used to have the floors of their home sanded...
Bourdelle, French " spiritual realist " sculptor, has been asked to design a war memorial in concrete, 25 x 10 meters, to be set against the rocks near Grenoble...
Judging by communications to the sculptor Jean Boucher's memorial statue in Paris, showing a gloved American soldier shaking hands with a Poilu, deeply affected many who saw it. But what moved them was not the beauty of the statue, but the soldiers' gloves. "Both soldiers, being gentlemen, would have removed their gloves," said the objectors. M. Boucher reluctantly carved the gloves off the statue...
...born 42 years ago in Staunton, Mass., and as a boy of ten went to work for a sculptor. His next job was in a fertilizer plant, but, loving outdoor life, he soon beat his way to Oregon, where he worked as a lumberjack until...
Alexandro Finta de Arba, sculptor and director of all sculpture exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Rio de Janeiro, had to prove to immigration authorities at Ellis Island that he actually was an artist in order to gain admission to this country. Artists are exempt from immigration quotas, and as a result there have been a horde of impromptu "artists" on all arriving steamships. Signer de Arba proved his status by cablegrams from Rio de Janeiro-not by demonstrating his skill upon the spot...