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...phrase adapted from Lincoln Steffens. When Steffens returned from his trip to Russia soon after the Revolution, he visited his old friend, Sculptor Jo Davidson, who was busy doing a bust of Bernard Baruch. Said Baruch: "So you've been over into Russia." Replied Steffens: "I have been over into the future, and it works...
...Group Exhibition where, at 36, he showed his first picture. Doubting Matthew ("I wanted to be sure I had something to say") waited ten more years before he had his first one-man show. By then his furnace reds, bonfire oranges and gas-jet blues had warmed not only Sculptor Epstein but a lot of British painters as well. When Portraitist Augustus John was asked, "Who are the three greatest British artists?" he answered, "Well, there's Matthew Smith, and there's Smith, M., and then-there's Smith...
...sculptor, Epstein thinks, must "embody the hopes and ideals of his people, like the great artists of Egypt and Greece and the men who built the cathedrals . . . What they did everybody could understand. Everybody must understand...
...government and the Left. Within seconds, rival partymen were hard at it. The Reds' thick-nosed Milanese Labor Leader Gaetano Invernizzi made a flying leap from the top of the Communist benches into the heart of enemy territory. He was promptly kicked in the skull by potbellied Veronese Sculptor Eugenio Spiazzi. "Session adjourned!" screamed the chamber's President Giovanni Gronchi, jangling his bell madly...
Marino Marini is a tall, bland Milanese with mild brown eyes and a sculptor's muscular hands. Two years ago his works were little known outside of Italy; now, at 49, he is internationally admired. The exhibition of his works which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week was sure to shock some people and deeply move oth ers. It showed that he had earned his belated fame the hard way, with sculptures that were often downright unpleasant...