Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book begins with a preface by mountain-carving Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in which he writes: "Mrs. Logan has said: 'Art is colossal. . . .'" This is followed by a few brief chapters by the author herself extolling the Columbian World's Fair of 1893, objecting to French moderns, primitive art and such isms as cubism and surrealism. Says she: "Sanity in Art means soundness, rationalism, a correct integration of the art work itself in accordance with some internal logic. We know sanity is often difficult to define, and we also know insanity is often apparent at a glance...
...that over and learn the answer you'll have learned much about life. That's all now. I'm through." On his 100th birthday anniversary the City of Buffalo, N. Y. accepted a bust of Grover Cleveland which had been rejected 52 years ago because the sculptor had left off one of the coat buttons...
Saroyan on Bufano Sirs: My friend Reniamino Bufano [TIME. Feb. 15], the sculptor, like so many people who are not sculptors, sometimes eats nuts. Almost every day, however, in the presence of witnesses too, Bufano eats spaghetti and beef. There are never any cheers, no amazement. At the table, as a matter of fact, many people would not suspect that Bufano is one of the greatest living sculptors. Also, the model for Bufano's St. Francis was not my friend Joseph Danysh, Regional Adviser for The Federal Art Project on the West Coast. The model was St. Francis-inwardly...
...Sculptor Rush, son of a ship carpenter, started his career as a carver of ship figureheads and as such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with...
...Sculptor Rush's use of a female model shocked and outraged Philadelphia Quakers, but they soon forgave him. He was a member of the City Council for 22 years, a founder of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a member of its board until his death...