Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plus Chemistry. When he was a boy on a Kentucky farm, Dawn used to take a cold chisel, hammer and spoon over to the creek bank and chop faces in soft sandstone. Many years later, after time spent as a sailor, dishwasher and cowhand-always with a lump of sculptor's clay in his pocket - a Hollywood studio hired him to be an Indian brave...
With these words, London's National Gallery Director Sir Kenneth Clark introduced to the U.S. England's foremost modernist sculptor, Henry Moore, 44. His recent drawings, packed into two tubes and sent by Clipper, were on view last week at Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery. The drawings, suggestive of his sculpture, were mostly of figures. For years Moore has been famous in Britain for sculpture as unorthodox and experimental as Pablo Picasso's painting...
Moore's carvings - smooth, cratered shapes often derived from the female figure-suggest streamlined prehistoric rocks taken, after eons under water, from a river bed. In these pocked and fissured forms, Moore tries to emphasize the sculptor's intense feeling for his medium. Says he : "The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional." The child "has to develop . . . the ability to judge roughly three-dimensional distances." But most adults "do not make the further intellectual and emotional effort needed...
...Author. David L. Cohn, 46, one-time national advertising manager of Sears, Roebuck, good friend of Sculptor Jacob Epstein, Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis and Rebecca West, is now a policy adviser with the British Information Service in Washington. He is a bachelor...
Bourgeois got Washington's architectural sculptor John J. Earley to do the external ornamentation. Bourgeois did not live to see the results: he died in 1930, on the Temple grounds. Wrote he of the shrine: "It is too sacred to me to try to utter words about it. . . . Most people who appreciate this 'new art' look to me as the creator of it, but the One Who did it, they do not know-that One was the Blessed Perfection...