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Commission decided to get Charlie to Washington or bust, issued a statewide invitation for sculptors to submit models, then called in three out-of-state judges (one of them an old personal friend of Cowboy Russell) to judge the five entries. Last week the judges announced their unanimous choice: a standing figure, palette in hand, staring Montana-like into the distance (see cut). The sculptor: John B. Weaver, curator of the Montana Historical Society. Said the judges: "It captures the spirit of Charles M. Russell, and is worthy of representing him to posterity." At last the trail to Washington seemed...
...subject of British culture, Keith Godwin, sculptor and Lecturer at London University, summed up, "We're doing quite nicely, thank...
...Sculptor Ziolkowski's subject is Crazy
...Plasticism. British Painter Ben Nicholson made a pilgrimage to Mondrian's quiet, immaculate Paris studio overlooking the Gare Montparnasse railroad tracks, likened it to "one of those hermit's caves where lions used to go to have thorns taken out of their paws." U.S. Sculptor Alexander Calder saw the bright rectangles on Mondrian's walls, went home, set the cubes in motion by creating his first mobile. Now, 13 years after Mondrian's death (in Manhattan, at 72), his recognition is reaching new heights. Paris, which had never seen a one-man Mondrian show, this spring...
...Sculptor Naum Gabo, a near neigh bor of Breuer's in Connecticut, the Bijenkorf commission was the dream of a lifetime. A constructivist (along with his brother, Antoine Pevsner) since the movement's pioneer days in Russia, Gabo still bases his work on the esthetics of mathematics, modern material, and machine motifs. His present work, which took more than a year to construct in steel and aluminum bronze, is as abstract as he has ever done. "I'm not a naturalist," he explains, "who works from a face, a landscape or an event. I have only...