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Matisse's knife might never challenge his brush, but his work is still something any sculptor could be proud of. He began in 1899, at the age of 29, and worked in fits & starts until 1930, never long enough to develop a steady style. The gleaming bronzes at the Tate alternate between muscular realism and cubist distortion, are smooth and rough, delicate and grossly bulky. Yet each reflects the Matisse eye for form...
...Manhattan, the National Arts Foundation announced its selection of the top artists of 1952: Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, whose 38-figure Fountain of Faith was unveiled in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Va. last fall; Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who made her farewell appearance at the Metropolitan Opera last spring; Dramatist Sean (Cock-adoodle Dandy) O'Casey, "the most magnificent prose writer in the modern theater"; and the Dancers of Bali...
Perhaps the most unusual method of recalling the date of a subscription came from a woman in Manhattan, who was looking over some copies of TIME many years ago. She writes: "I came across an item about . . . Sculptor Pietro Montana. I cut out the article and gave it to Pietro Montana, whom I had recently met. He had not seen the account when it was published, and he was amazed at TIME'S definite information and its exact way of stating facts...
Austrian-born Chaim Gross came to Ostrowsky as a youngster two days out of Ellis Island, fed himself on the fruit the students were to draw as still life, and later developed into a world-famous sculptor. Such artists as William Auer-bach-Levy, Jo Davidson and Jacob Epstein paid 3? a week for instruction, used pushcart peddlers for models, or bearded patriarchs who posed for 15? an hour...
...with the completion of his famous David, Michelangelo was clearly the first sculptor of Italy; by 33 he was acclaimed the equal of Phidias. But he had also begun to learn the inconstancy of patrons. Pope Julius II commissioned the artist to make him the finest tomb in history, then abruptly lost all interest in the project. Furious, Michelangelo took French leave of Rome, and it was seven months before he was reconciled. The Pope then put Michelangelo to work on a heroic bronze statue of himself and later to painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This time...