Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city. Though Michigan Avenue Bridge is one of the most heavily-traveled in the world, few Chicagoans knew until last week that the 15-ft. Marquette bas-relief contains a ridiculous error. The explorer-priest, a Jesuit, is shown in the robes of a Franciscan monk, simply be cause Sculptor James Earl Fraser saw him that way in an old print...
...Kelly of The Fair store and Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. of the packing company to raise $200 to have Marquette's robe altered. Last week Dr. Nesbit's plans became public when Commissioner of Public Works Oscar Edwin Hewitt approved the project on condition that a competent sculptor could be found to do a historically accurate job at no cost to the city. Fortunately, Pere Marquette's Franciscan habit can easily be chiseled into resemblance of a Jesuit mantle without even moving the plaque. Sculptor Eugene Romeo will reduce the Franciscan hat to a skullcap, take...
...sound hearing who poses as deaf to cadge charitable upkeep) to appear during the past three years, one Charles Burton of Altoona. Pa., had been punished by law, then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin, Dancers Charlotte & Charles Lamberton, Dentist A. H. Clancy of Cincinnati, Broker Samuel Frankenheim of Manhattan, Research Librarian Elizabeth McLeod of the New York Public Library, President Arthur Lawrence Roberts of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf...
Since 1876. Psyttaleia's headless Ceres has occupied a niche over the main entrance of the Academy's later building at Broad and Cherry Streets. To the sculptor who hewed and chiseled her broad figure in the time of Praxiteles, she represented not Roman Ceres but Greek Demeter, "earth mother," goddess of fertility, mother of Persephone whom Pluto carried off to the underworld. One of the few pieces of ancient Greek sculpture which have been left outdoors since discovery, Ceres has been getting blacker every year in Philadelphia's smoky air, has finally begun to crumble...
...last vans full of plaster and clay models of sculpture by Mountain-Carver Gutzon Borglum, who closed up his studio and left Texas for good last month after the contract for San Antonio's greatest memorial, the Alamo Cenotaph, was awarded not to him but to pudgy Sculptor Pompeo Coppini. During the twelve years he called San Antonio his home, big-eared, irascible Sculptor Borglum never finished a Texas job. A hater of cheap politics since the fiasco of his Stone Mountain project in Georgia, Borglum's wrath at Texas boiled over on the subject of the Texas...