Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born in Lithuania, lived in France, and became a U.S. citizen in 1957. but he had none of these lands in mind when he sat down one day with pen and paper. "I feel good today,'' he wrote. "My mind is clear and quiet, and I choose this day to make my last Will. After all. I am almost 70 years old." He went on to say that "apart from my family, my deep concern is for the Jewish people, saved from Hitler, in Israel." With that, he bequeathed to Israel an artistic bonanza...
...that any museum in the world would have been overjoyed to get, but only the new Jerusalem Museum of Art has so persuasive a booster as U.S. Showman Billy Rose. For years curators and directors have been angling for the Lipchitz plasters-so many, in fact, that the great sculptor hardly knew which way to turn. Then one day Lipchitz' old friend Billy came to call in his capacity as the chairman of the Jerusalem Museum's art committee. After talking with Billy. Lipchitz suddenly realized that to give his plasters to Israel was "a longstanding dream...
...Israeli Knesset, it will house not onlv the old Bezalel National Museum, which is the largest general museum in the Middle East, but also the Samuel Bronfman Archaeology Museum, a Shrine of the Book (to 'hold the Dead Sea Scrolls), and the Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The Art Garden already has Billy's own private collection, which Israel finally accepted as a gift last year after deciding that it would not be a violation of Leviticus 26:1 to have graven images around as long as no one bowed down unto them...
...strange as the man it commemorates. Staring toward the rolling wheatfield that was the subject of Vincent's last canvas is a figure with peasant hat and deep-set eyes, the severed left ear barely suggested, paintbox and easel slung on his back. The work of Russian-born Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, it stands a few paces from the small walled cemetery where Van Gogh lies buried beside his brother Theo...
...Sculptor Zadkine confesses that as his admiration and respect for Van Gogh increased, so did the task of portraying him with fidelity. "You cannot go into abstraction when you do a personage; a person is always a document." Zadkine believes. Zadkine finally narrowed his search for the real Van Gogh down to two self-portraits, one in which Van Gogh resembled his mother, the other his father, and modeled them in clay. "When I had these two portraits I proceeded to create this being. He was an active man. Every morning he would go out, make three paintings, afterwards working...