Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wares range from the elegant wired constructions of Harry Bertoia to the thick figure paintings of the late David Park to the haunting geometry of Painter Attilio Salemme. Otto Gerson deals mostly in first-rate sculpture from Barlach to David Smith. The Willard Gallery (Feininger, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Sculptor Richard Lippold) is excellent; so is John Bernard Myers' Tibor de Nagy Gallery, whose artists include Larry Rivers, Robert Goodnough and Fairfield Porter. In the print field, the sightseer or collector can do no better than start at the A.A.A. Gallery on Fifth Avenue, which has the most catholic...
...large whitewashed studio in the London borough of Hammersmith works a wild-haired, chalk-faced old man who wryly likes to compare himself to the Prophet Elijah. "You have to pay for working alone for 40 years," Sculptor Leon Underwood says. "The ravens fed me; but since ravens do not have watches, they often came very irregularly." Today, at 71, Underwood does not have to depend so much on ravens. People have begun to buy his work, for when, after an eight-year hiatus, he finally consented to a one-man show in London two years ago, British critics raved...
...This unfashionable "literary" approach to art, as well as an almost compulsive shyness about exhibiting, has kept Underwood out of the public notice. But he has done his share to set the stage for modern British sculpture. At one time he ran a small drawing school, which a promising sculptor named Henry Moore attended. Moore still credits Underwood with having done more for him than any earlier teacher, and the two men are often compared and contrasted by British critics...
...hours later, a representative of the Vatican sent for Piser, told him that the Pope had been particularly pleased with their conversation, and handed him a medal. Piser recognized it as a copy of the Pope's favorite medal of himself, struck by famed Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manz...
Cage and Muzak met several months ago when the composer was presented with a thorny problem involving Manhattan's giant new Pan American Building. Sculptor Richard Lippold, renowned for his glittering geometric structures of stainless steel and gold, had been commissioned by the Pan Am Building directors to design a work for the main lobby. Lippold created The Globe, an immense, shining piece three stories high. The directors were delighted, but Lippold...