Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plastered Pulse. Among Rorimer's special kicks is encountering in the lobby a life-size plaster cast of one of the Met's curators, Henry Geldzahler, made by Sculptor George Segal. For the Sculls, the plastered Henry (top picture, opposite page) has become a household pet. Scull likes to feel Henry's pulse. "How pale you look," he murmurs. Scull's three boys chat with Henry and use him as a talisman of good luck for exams at school...
...Picks What? The $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, won by Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, is supposed to go, explains Curator Lawrence Alloway, to "the great wherever seen. When Harry Guggenheim started the whole thing in 1956, he saw the prizes as a kind of equivalent of the Nobel Prize, something that was awarded regardless of national boundaries." Alloway spent a year and a half traveling in 30 countries to choose entries for the 1964 Guggenheim International, and the jury that then picked the winners included Painter Hans Hofmann, Arnold Rüdlinger, director of the Kunsthalle in Basel...
...Temple Medal and the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture rarely go to artists without a lengthy list of works and other awards behind them. But the Widener award this year went to an unknown Negro sculptor, Geraldine McCullough of Maywood, III., who had not been invited by the jury, and six lesser awards went to uninvited works...
...some of the greatest men of the revolutionary periods in France and America started with the passionately accurate chisel of Houdon. Now on view at Massachusetts' Worcester Art Museum is the U.S.'s first comprehensive look, through 33 works, at original likenesses by the great portrait sculptor...
...Award of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, thus becoming the first head of the Presbyterian Church ever honored by a Catholic group; Fisk University President Stephen Wright, 53, elected a board director of the Association of American Colleges, the first Negro ever to achieve such a post; Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, 62, named for the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the U.S.'s richest art prize; Actress Patricia Neal, 38, Actor Albert Finney, 27, and Director Tony Richardson, 35, presented with the 1963 New York Film Critics' top awards for their work in Hud (Miss Neal...