Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here was lust and love, birth and creation, hell and despair; and each emotion showed not only on the faces but in every muscle of each arm and leg. The portrait busts seemed timeless, as if the sculptor knew no theme that was not eternal. The Auguste Rodin show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was near perfection-the superb work of a giant superbly installed. The public responded by joyously wallowing in the incredible vitality of bronze and stone bursting with life, of figures that writhed, embraced and entwined themselves. The critics were all superlatives...
...avant-garde of 20 years ago, Rodin was an overwrought sentimentalist. The great cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (whose own retrospective is finishing a nationwide tour) ruefully recalls how appalled he was when someone told him that old Rodin had liked a Lipchitz sculpture. "What could be so wrong with my little sculpture that Rodin liked it?" he asked. But Lipchitz came to realize that though Rodin dealt with the human figure, he was breaking it down, exploring form, probing its mysteries much as the cubists were. Rodin's Walking Man, thought to be a study...
...superb exhibition of drawings is divided into three parts. The largest consists of his portrait studies, ranging from the swift Oriental lines that concisely catch the profile of his friend, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, to a marvelously strong-featured portrait of Painter Marguerite Zorach, wife of Sculptor William Zorach, to an almost misty rendition of a pensive Van Wyck Brooks. Alongside these are his pictures in silverpoint-a painstaking technique that flourished in the 15th century and is rarely seen these days. With a silverpoint pen, Biddle works on paper treated with whiting to abrade the silver. He draws tiny line upon...
...Sculptor Laurent is Professor Emeritus of Indiana's Fine Arts Dept...
Patients who go to Dr. Herbert Ferber Silvers, D.D.S., graduate of Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery, are usually unaware that he is also a noted sculptor; and those who follow the work of Sculptor Herbert Ferber, 56, have probably never heard of Dr. Silvers. Yet this double career has been going on for more than 30 years, ever since an ambitious young man took up dentistry at Columbia and at the same time began studying at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design at night...