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...last week, on the 100th anniversary of the sculptor's birth, it was easy to see that, Henry Adams to the contrary, Saint-Gaudens had not been smothered. Manhattan's Century Association, a gathering place for arts and artists that have begun to gather dust, put on a private showing which highlighted the delicacy of his bas-reliefs and reached a rare pitch of portraiture in the stubble-bearded head of General Sherman-as melancholy and implacable as the head of a fighting cock...
Saarinen's plans, drawn up with the help of his wife (a sculptor) and three aides, called for a tree-dotted, 80-acre area around the arch with two museums, an open-air theater, a tea terrace, a frontier village and five sculptural monuments. The arch itself, said proud St. Louisans, would mark their city like the Eiffel Tower or the Washington Monument...
...Sculptor J. E. Fraser explained that the nickel Indian was a composite portrait of Indians Iron Tail, Two Moons and "a third whose name I have forgotten...
...When 30 phone calls-to the oil company, to the police, to the board of health, to the Mayor's office-and two personal trips to the authorities failed to produce oil to heat his Queens Village, N.Y. home, Herman Steinmetz, 78, an architectural sculptor, hanged himself...
...representations of Jesus in most modern chromos, Sunday-school picture books and Christmas cards. Largely, they were hack work, to be judged in the same charitable spirit as cards featuring Santa Claus, Christmas trees and blazing hearths. Either as art or religion they did not pretend to much. As Sculptor Moore himself remarked, without a sigh: "The great tradition of religious art seems to have got lost completely in the present day." What on earth had happened...