Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Sculptor...
...photograph of a standing figure by the father of Mobilist Alexander Calder may help explain why the mother of the mobilist said the father was a real sculptor...
...were astounded, when we saw the reproduction of the winning design for a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt, to note its amazing resemblance to the "Satellite City Towers" designed by our artist, Sculptor Mathias Goeritz, and erected in Mexico...
...Modern Art. The fame of the third Alexander Calder, the father of two daughters, was now the greatest of all, but his own mother, who died last year, could never quite believe it. "You should have seen his father." she once told a critic. "He was a real sculptor...
...design sculptor is 32-year-old Norman Hoberman, who worked with a team from the Manhattan architectural firm of Pedersen & Tilney. Hoberman rejected the idea of any kind of statue, because "there is so much photographic material on F.D.R." Nor did he want another anachronism such as a modified Greek temple (the Lincoln Memorial) or an Egyptian obelisk (the Washington Monument). Instead, he proposed perpendicular tablets carrying quotations from Roosevelt. Commented Jury Chairman Pietro Belluschi: "I hate to bring up Moses and his tablets, but this is a sort of version of them...