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...paradoxical knack for the practical has long made him wish he had tried the plastic arts. "Friends think I might have made a pretty good sculptor," he says...
...Studios, Chicago). ¶Seasonal groups, such as "Santa," featuring a robust St. Nick, a reindeer and a star-carrying angel, all suspended from a crescent moon; and "Spring," a versatile, pastel menage of rabbits, flowers, birds and butterflies ($1 and $1.95, Scamanda Mobiles, Manhattan). ¶Decorative abstractions, such as Sculptor Marechal Brown's "Tapered Quills," looking like giant buffalo teeth strung on an Indian brave's necklace ($33, Gotham Lighting Corp., New York City). ¶Elegant, modernistic fish in contrastingly colored woods, handmade by Connecticut Sculptor Clark Voorhees ($270, Hansen, Manhattan). ¶Children's mobiles, with figures...
Last week, at the still unfinished "House of the Worker" on the village's main square, Don Giuseppe prepared to dedicate the first monument in Italy to depict Christ as a worker: a 4-by-8-ft. cement bas relief by Roman Sculptor Egidio Giaroli showing Christ as a carpenter at work with two assistants under the gaze of Mary. Bologna's famed archbishop, Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (TIME, March 30), came to town for the ceremony...
Sandwiched between "Fine Chippendale'' and "French Books" in the London Times last week was an ad that was enough to make an old sculptor turn in his chisel. The ad: "Epstein's masterpieces. Adam, Jacob and the Angel, Consummatum Est, For Sale. Offers Wanted." The statues were three of Jacob Epstein's most famous works: a hulking, dumbly defiant alabaster giant that makes the first man look scarcely human; a muscle-bound Jacob hugging a brutish-looking angel; and a recumbent, mummy like figure of Christ, with crude but powerfully eloquent hands upturned in protest...
...Sculptor Epstein raged that "Adam and the others should be in a museum." But at week's end the owner of the big three, an ice-cream manufacturer named Tony Crisp, still planned to sell to the highest bidder. What about Eve? She belonged to Crisp's associate, one Walter West, and he was more considerate, said he might lend Eve to London's Tate Museum. "I expect they'll be tickled pink...