Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miro, in the U.S. for the first time, had left his farm in Tarragona, Spain, to paint a 30-foot mural for a Cincinnati restaurant (which will also display a teetering "mobile" by Sculptor Alexander Calder). Manhattan exhilarates Miro, and he expects it to give his art more oomph...
With her, Sterne moved into a 48-room castle in the Sabine hills south of Rome. He was already famous both as a painter and as a sculptor, sometimes made $5,000 for a few weeks' work. The King of Italy opened Sterne's first one-man show in Rome. After Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him a well-publicized exhibition in 1933, Sterne spent more & more time in the U.S. He painted a series of murals for the Department of Justice building in Washington, found himself represented in 16 U.S. museums, including Manhattan...
...Comando lo!" Across in Anticoli, there were complications. Local Socialist Leader Carlo Toppi, a jolly, moonfaced sculptor, wasn't quite strong enough to get himself made mayor. During the campaign he had become so excited painting emblems on the town's walls, that he wasn't sure any more that there was a difference between Socialists and Communists. The local Communists suggested that Anticoli needed a mayor with high contacts in Rome itself. Toppi agreed, and Anticoli proudly selected as its mayor a Communist from Rome. His job was that of porter at the Air Ministry...
Crowned: Cinemactress Alexis Smith, by roly-poly California Sculptor Yucca Salamunich. who says she has The Sexiest Head in Hollywood. Judy Garland, Salamunich decided, has The Least Sexy Head. Excerpt from the admiring sculptor's informal citation to Miss Smith: "She has the perfect North American head. Those high cheekbones and yunnnh! That nose! Long and straight. Passionate women always have long, straight noses...
...aluminum figures were somewhat abstracted, but they were also undeniably naked (see cut). Entitled The Lovers, they had won a prize for a pretty, brunette-banged sculptor named Mitzi Solomon (who manfully objects to being called a "sculptress...