Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stieglitz had a right to his emotion, for he and Steichen together led the U. S. to take photography seriously before the War. At 23 Steichen. who had lived with Rodin in Paris and taken a famed, dramatic photograph of the sculptor, suggested and helped establish in 1902 Stieglitz's gallery at No. 291 Fifth Avenue. First U. S. showings of Rodin's sketches, in 1905, and Matisse's paintings, in 1908. were arranged for "291" by Steichen. Among the "Photo-Secessionists" who were then contributing to Stieglitz's magazine. Camera Work, Steichen did what...
Cleveland's show, "Sculpture of Our Time," included 103 pieces by 60 artists, borrowed from museums, galleries, private collectors and the sculptors themselves. One of the weightiest pieces in the exhibition was Head of an Indian, done in 3,300 Ib. of Mexican onyx by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles. Its transportation from St. Paul, Minn, indicated the ambitiousness of the Museum's show. Other monumental statues were a bronze by the late, great Gaston Lachaise, Standing Woman, and an already famed piece in marble by William Zorach, Mother and Child...
Manhattan's Midtown Galleries this week showed many an excellent piece of sculpture by saturnine Herbert Ferber, 31-year-old second cousin to Novelist Edna. Like Gargallo, Sculptor Ferber has worked in a blacksmith's shop to familiarize himself with metals, but his favorite materials are wood and stone which he frequently picks up on motor trips to Connecticut. Ferber has been working for only six years but has already been through four great influences in that period: African, Egyptian, Mexican and Lachaise. Best whittling: The Wrestlers, in mahogany, and Worker, in lignum-vitae. Best stone work...
Educated as a sculptor and painter Jensen reveals his artistic background in all his silver work. His designs are well-balanced and full of rhythm. The color and texture of his works are intended, in his own words, to suggest the "play of moonlight on water...
Socialites and dance-lovers, wandering this week through eight big galleries in Rockefeller Center's International Building, found rare things in rich profusion: Sculptor Hoffman's plaques of Pavlova and such of her studies of ceremonial dancers as the Mongolian Bowman (see cut); designs and sketches by such famed Europeans as Christian Bérard, Mariette Lydis, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain. Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, Léon Bakst; drawings made by Nijinsky in his Swiss sanatorium; masks from Africa and masks by W. T. Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs...