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...Death came in January to this bearded sculptor of celebrities...
...military men, Government officials, doctors, businessmen and art students, as well as a Wall Street broker who commissioned an entire exhibition in order to break into "arty circles." Obviously, said Troy, he could not reveal the names of his staff artists, but he identified them as three painters, a sculptor and a Saturday Evening Post cover artist who enjoys doing abstractions in his off hours. "I know what we're doing is wrong," said Troy, putting on a repentant look. "Absolutely immoral . . . Once they start coming to us, they can never stop...
...Temple Medal (no cash) for the best oil, awarded in the past to such masters as Whistler, Winslow Homer and George Bellows, went to Louis Guglielmi of Manhattan for his New York 21, an expert semi-abstraction. Lithuanian-born Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz admitted that he was bucked up when his Prometheus Strangling the Vulture, a powerful, aggressively ugly study in plaster, won the top sculpture award. A few days after he sent Prometheus off to Philadelphia for the academy show, fire destroyed his Manhattan studio, along with ten years of work in models, sketches and drawings. "Part of my life...
During his long career Sculptor Jacob Epstein, 71, has occasionally tried his hand at religious subjects. To the orthodox, the results have usually seemed artistically outrageous, if not downright blasphemous. Epstein's phallephoric Adam was denounced as pornography; his Jacob and the Angel, billed as "the world's greatest shocker," went on tour in an artistic peepshow; G. K. Chesterton took one look at his square, squat Ecce Homo, then thundered at it as "one of the greatest insults to religion I've ever seen...
Died. Joseph ("Jo") Davidson, 68, bearded portrait sculptor of celebrities (Madame Chiang Kaishek, D. H. Lawrence, Lloyd George, F.D.R., Gandhi, Mussolini), sometime political dabbler (cochairman of the Progressive Citizens of America in 1947, co-chairman of the Wallace-for-President Committee in 1948) ; of a heart attack; in Tours, France. Born of Russian-Jewish immigrants on Manhattan's lower East Side, Davidson began as a newsboy. In 1907 he headed for Europe with a $40 stake to study art. Since 1910 he had shuttled busily and profitably between the U.S. and Europe. His most important commission: bronze busts...