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...Sculptor Epstein emphatically believes that the average Philadelphia park stroller will understand exactly what he had in mind. Says he: "There's no mystery about the figures, nothing about it that's modern -I mean modern in the bad sense. It's human. It will appeal because it is human. Everyone will have different ideas of what social consciousness is, but everyone, especially in America, is cognizant of social consciousness...
Shrouded in all the mystery of an atomic shipment, three huge packing cases arrived last week in Philadelphia. In them were seven tons of bronze sculpture by Britain's famed U.S.-born sculptor, Sir Jacob Epstein. They had been cast in secrecy in a London foundry so that Philadelphians would get first look at the newest adornment to their city: a group of five bronze figures, representing "Social Consciousness," to stand as a part of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park...
...Sculptor Epstein, 74, enjoying all the secrecy, could not resist hinting from London: "I consider this one of my major works." Epstein is apt to consider all of his works "major," but this time Philadelphia agreed. Said R. Sturgis Ingersoll, president of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: "The works may be the finest Epstein has ever done . . . We believe we have acquired Epstein at his very best...
When the news of Bristol's rejection reached Rome, it set off an explosion in the Via Margutta studio of Sculptor Fazzini. Producing photos of Italy's President Luigi Einaudi admiring a clay reproduction of the statue. Fazzini indignantly snorted: "If it's good enough for the President of Italy, it should be good enough for a U.S. high school." Bristling with indignation, Sculptor Fazzini pointed out that he had done the altar columns for the new American College in Rome, had made a 10-ft statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, America's first saint...
Naum Gabo, a sculptor and lecturer on Design; James J. Sweeney, director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Sigfried Giedion, visiting professor of Architecture, and Serge Chemayeff, professor of Architecture...