Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among friends of John Russell Pope who sprang forward to defend him last week were Sculptor James Earle Fraser and President Archibald Manning Brown of the Architectural League. Their points...
...week's end, when the newspapers had begun to build Gedeon up to look like another Bruno Richard Hauptmann and the police had begun to bog down before three more unsolved murders, up popped the discovery of Robert Irwin. A twice-committed mental hospital patient, 29-year-old Sculptor Irwin had once roomed with the Gedeons and was so abnormal about sex that he had tried to have himself emasculated. Learning that he had come to New York, hired a room for a single day near the Gedeon apartment and disappeared the night of the murders, the police settled...
Three weeks ago, it became known last week, the Pope gave audience to Aurelio Mistruzzi, Papal engraver and sculptor who fashioned the Golden Rose to be given this week to Italy's Queen Elena (TIME, March 15). According to Signer Mistruzzi, the hale Holy Father pointed to papers on his desk and said: "We have written a long letter which is most important and we are writing another which is equally important. When they are published the world will know a sick man could not have written them. When we write letters like this [pointing] we must feel well...
Died. Frederick William MacMonnies, 73, sculptor; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A boyhood playmate of Artist Charles Dana Gibson who cut silhouets while he modeled in chewing gum, Sculptor MacMonnies made his biggest news in 1932 when his Civic Virtue was condemned by New York feminists because a male figure had his foot on a female figure's neck...
During the late Renaissance, Bologna was the foremost sculptor of large and even colossal statues; likewise he was foremost as a producer of statuettes. It is in the latter that the "contortions" inherited from the aged Michael Angelo are far less disturbing than in his larger works...