Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Argentina's Alicia Penalba, 43, Best Foreign Sculptor. A former student of Ossip Zadkine in Paris, Sculptor Penalba turns out monumental bronze and stone abstractions that have a considerable range: a cluster of balanced chunks that remotely suggest a huge cactus, a set of rippling spires that seem to move upwards, a hollowed and pierced sculpture that might have been fashioned by the lash...
...Whitney Museum of American Art will cover all three floors, more space than the museum ever gave for a one-man exhibition. The size of the show is all the more impressive because of the artist it will honor. He is Bernard Reder, 64, an enormously imaginative New York sculptor whose name is scarcely known to the general public...
...always disliked modeling in clay, preferring to work with hammer and chisel. Even today, though he now models in wax, the material that gives him the most spontaneity, he still approaches each work as if it were to be hewn out of a mass. "I am a sculptor," says he, "who enters the volume: always I conserve the block." This concept of "volumetricity" is basic to his art. Each statue, says Reder, must be seen from all sides and not just frontally. The big Whitney show, which will open late in September, will give viewers scope to circle Reder...
...meager living doing statues for the Czernowitz cemetery until a fresh outburst of anti-Semitism drove him away, and for the next 20 years he was never to settle in one place for long. He worked in Prague and in France, where he became the devoted friend of Sculptor Aristide Maillol. He escaped to Spain when the Nazis swept into France, only to be thrown into jail for illegal entry. Released without explanation, he got to Cuba and from there to New York. His troubles were far from over. Two or three museums bought sculptures from him; a few major...
Tireless is the word for Showman Billy Rose. Fortnight ago, acting as head of the fine arts committee for Israel's new Jerusalem Museum of Art, he announced that he had persuaded U.S. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz to bequeath 300 original plasters to the museum.* Last week he announced another coup. While lunching in London a month ago, he said, he asked the widow of Sculptor Jacob Epstein just what her U.S.-born husband would have done with his 200-odd original plasters had he known that Rose was gathering works for the ambitious museum in Israel. "Give them...