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...Sculptor Zorach took three years to carve his warmly maternal Mother and Child from a three-ton chunk of rose-colored marble. In the sculpting, he ignored the common practice of making a plaster model and translating it into stone mechanically. In an older and more honored tradition, Zorach worked the marble freehand, using a small plaster model only as a guide...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is less concerned with contemporary art than with the possibly eternal; in general, it leaves purchases of recent art to others. But last week the museum announced the purchase of a work by U.S. Sculptor William Zorach, 65. The Met's new sculpture is, however, on an eternal theme: Mother and Child. Moreover, it is an old friend; for three years, in the early '40s, it stood in the Metropolitan, on loan from the artist...
Married. Pamela Gordon, 34, painter daughter of the late Gertrude Lawrence; and Robert Clatworthy, 24, British sculptor; she for the second time, he for the first; in a civil ceremony (the bride wore her mother's "favorite dress"); in London...
...Londoner of Mrs. Gillick's work. "Made her look like a schoolgirl and she's really quite regal." Others objected to the sculptured royal nose and the laurel-wreathed, bun-backed hairdo. "Not a good likeness, as far as I can judge," humphed famed non-likeness-making Sculptor Epstein. "Look what they've done to our Queen," piped one shrill critic. "Made her neck too long." "I should say," said another sculptor whose own design had been rejected in the competition, "that the Queen has been cast too young, but as to the long neck-I took...
...fled the Nazis who looted Saint-Leu of everything she owned. She escaped to the south of France with only some photographs of Tolstoy, several sketches given her by Rodin and the clothes on her back, and went to live at Banyulssur-Mer near her friend, the sculptor, Aristide Maillol. The only instrument in her pension was a battered old upright piano. Late one night, when everyone else was in bed, she sat down and played until morning. When the proprietress came down, Landowska inquired whether her playing had disturbed her. "But no," she replied. "I do not sleep well...