Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greatest living sculptor, by common consent of the artistic world, is grey-bearded Aristide Maillol, who next week celebrates his 80th birthday in the little fishing village of Banyuls, in southern France. In spite of war, little Banyuls will give this spry oldster his usual birthday party. In Manhattan, his birthday is being celebrated by an exhibition of his sculpture at the Buchholz Gallery...
...Sculptor Maillol has devoted his entire life to a single subject: the full-blown bodies of naked women. Only three or four times has he sculpted a man; never an animal. When he did Leda and the Swan, he left the swan out and concentrated on Leda. His sculptures seldom tell a story, never illustrate any high-flown saw or slogan. But his placid, broad-hipped, female torsos, mountainously solid, yet so graceful that they seem about to move, have been the envy and despair of fellow sculptors all over the world...
Johnson writes: "In the whole Roosevelt record there is not a single great musician, painter, sculptor, or other artist, and not a single madman. No Roosevelt ever died as a martyr to some great cause, and none was ever shot in a quarrel over a trollop. Up to the eighth generation there is no conspicuous instance in which a Roosevelt ever refused to do his duty, and none in which one ever did much more than his duty. For 250 years the family record was remarkably clear of both scandal and glory." Suddenly out of the line appeared...
...Logan prize ($500) went to Manhattan Sculptor Oronzio Maldarelli for a smooth-cheeked limestone portrait head. Chicago's Ivan Le Lorraine Albright got a $500 prize for a queer, meticulously detailed picture of the door of a mortuary chamber. He called it That Which I Should Have Done...
Working in Bogota (Colombia) and Quito (Ecuador), Sculptor Davidson did two of his jobs at altitudes of more than 8,000 feet. Growled he: "That is very close to God for a sculptor. I have never been so close before...