Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jacques Lipchitz's latest sculpture, Peace on Earth, was unveiled at the Music Center in Los Angeles. Donated by Philanthropists Lawrence Deutsch and Lloyd Rigler, and valued at $250,000, the 29-ft.-high, 10-ton design gives eloquent testimony to the career of the 77-year-old sculptor. Lipchitz spent three years on the project, laboring in his studio in central Italy. His efforts were interrupted by the Florentine floods of 1966, which devastated his retreat-as well as two-thirds of the design's original plaster. Undaunted, Lipchitz began anew. He was on hand...
...commanding construction of stainless steel, its open central square draws the visitor toward it, then past it up the ramp. Thus, instead of going up by elevator and sauntering downward-as he does with most Guggenheim exhibitions- he finds himself climbing upward, approximating the demanding path that the sculptor pursued...
...effort is to drive to the fullest extent those few talents that were given to me," the late David Smith once said. The brawny, Indiana-born metal worker was perhaps the most restless as well as the most gifted sculptor of an impatient nation and century. For 25 years, he labored to populate the fields of his "sculpture farm" near Bolton Landing in upper New York State with a dozen different species of welded totems, signposts, sentinels and ti tans. He was still pursuing at least five different styles when the pickup truck he was driving veered off the road...
...ambience seems bleak, it is also strangely appropriate, for Smith's last works were conceived and built in desolation. His second wife had left him in the isolated mountain house, taking with her their two daughters. Visitors, though they revelled in the gourmet meals that the sculptor cooked and joined in the monumental drinking bouts, could see that he was desperately lonely. "If you ask me why I make sculpture," he once said, "I must answer that it is my way of life, my balance and my justification for being." As a balance wheel that served in lieu...
...century Franciscan church-that previously stood on the site. Despite the impressive work of Italian Architect Giovanni Muzio on the basilica itself, the feature that drew the largest crowds at consecration ceremonies last week was the great bronze doors in its southern portico (see facing page), designed by Connecticut Sculptor Fred Shrady...