Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frenchman Aristide Maillol (pronounced Mayoll) made a long false start. For ten years he tried to paint; for another six he designed tapestries. When he was nearly 40 he took a tree trunk, carved from it a nude figure that he liked very much. Thereupon Aristide Maillol became a sculptor. At 78 he is dean of them all. Last week a show of his work opened in Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery, demonstrated Oldster Maillol's extraordinary talent for imbuing sculpture with both vitality and repose...
Short, spare, blue-eyed, with a flowing white beard which he tucks into his vest at mealtimes, Sculptor Maillol comes of a line of smugglers, fishermen and vine-growers who lived in Banyuls, a Mediterranean village near the Spanish border...
IMPOSSIBLE was the one-word answer cabled by Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Director John M. Gates of Steuben Glass got better answers from 27 other famed sculptors, painters, etchers. Result: a unique show that opened last week in the Steuben glass house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. On display went 27 crystal bowls, vases and urns engraved with designs by the 27 artists...
After a 54-year argument, a Boston, Mass, sculptor, 78-year-old Cyrus E. Dallin. was finally commissioned to cast in bronze a statue of Paul Revere. One of Sculptor Dallin's appeals: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the ignoble failure of Boston to rear The greatest creation of my long career, The equestrian statue of Paul Revere. A citizens' committee of well-known men Selected my model from a competition of ten On July the Fourth, eighteen hundred and ighty-five. The committee, of which not one now is alive, Made a contract with...