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...Eliot lost this battle and Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the "Minute Man" at Concord and "Lincoln" at Washington's Lincoln Memorial, took the commission. When, on the afternoon of the dedication, October 15, 1884, a Boston physician complained, "Mr. French, you've given John Harvard the legs of a consumptive," French was convinced he had done well. "Glad you noticed that," he replied. "He died of consumption when...
Last week, with two months left to raise the money, Tate Director Sir John Rothenstein sadly reported that while scores of Britons had sent contributions, the total so far was only ?600. Sir John was planning one more appeal. Said he: "Rodin is perhaps the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo . . . This is the only Rodin marble in a public collection in England...
Kissing: U.S.-Style. Japanese art lovers might wonder about Centipede and Mister One Man, but they knew the balding artist of Myself. His name: Isamu Noguchi, famed California-born Japanese-American sculptor, who had been to Japan three times since the war preaching modern art. Noguchi's beautiful wife, Shirley Yamaguchi, is just as much a celebrity as the sculptor himself. One of Japan's top movie stars, Shirley met Noguchi on a 1950 trip to the U.S. (to pick up Hollywood pointers, among other things, on how to kiss for the camera, U.S.-style). On their third...
...Sculptor Milles still does not believe in death. He is sure that life goes on, and his belief was never stronger than in the massive work he will unveil next week. It is a huge, $250,000 Fountain of Faith for the National Memorial Park cemetery which he has been shaping for twelve years (TIME, July 19, 1948). Milles has made it his own idea of heaven, has done each of the 38 figures with a loving hand; magnificently supple men & women, joyous children playing games, a family bowed in prayer, an old philosopher, two lovely sisters, a father with...
Carl Milles turned to the angel with the flute, and for a moment put aside his preoccupation with the hereafter. Was the angel listening to the bronze children below? "No," said Sculptor Milles. "He is listening to what the people who come to look at the fountain are saying...