Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Alexander Archipenko, 76, Ukrainian-born sculptor who in 1909 shocked Paris by giving a third dimension to the cubism of Braque and Picasso, produced in the years that followed a 1,000-piece gallery of fluid and generally bulbous angularities (among the best-known: The Boxer and Gondolier), developing many popular techniques, such as the use of hunks of glass and mother-of-pearl, tunneling holes through anatomy long before Henry Moore; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
NATHANAEL NEUJEAN-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. Thirty-three small pieces in rough bronze for a Belgian sculptor's first U.S. showing. Much of his work commemorates the victims of the Nazi pogroms and stands as a monument to their courage. He endows his figures with dignity in despair, casts them in small lonely groups bound together both by human oppression and the hidden force of their own humanity. Through March...
UMBERTO MASTROIANNI-Bonino, 7 West 57th. This major Italian sculptor (an uncle of Movie Actor Marcello Mastroianni) casts planks and lumps of bronze and gives the tortured results such names as Hiroshima, Violenza, Pearl Harbor. Together, they look like a junk heap of civilization from which blooms a brute mess of skulls, limbs and deformities: machine-age fleurs du mal. Through March...
Shipyard Studio. Among grownups, as well, Calder at 65 is Europe's favorite U.S. sculptor. In 1927 he delighted Paris with his tiny abstract circus of wire-wound clowns. The son and grandson of more conventional sculptors, Calder has the blacksmith's instinctual understanding and fondness for metal. His ham fists twist, snip and shear sheet metal into subtle forms that others can only hope to achieve in clay or marble. His latest works of iron are so heavy that his Paris gallery had to reinforce its floor with girders for a one-man Calder show last month...
...gave a public library to Fullerton, Calif., where its cannery is located, and the Chase Manhattan Bank is helping to restore Wall Street's Federal Hall and a colonial town on Staten Island. President Bart Lytton of Lytton Savings & Loan Assoc. has commissioned a $60,000 work by Sculptor Henry Moore for Los Angeles' Art Museum Plaza...