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...great masters. The terra cotta sketches are very fragile which may well account for their rareness. The works are of great importance to art students for they often show greater freshness and originality than the finished product and sometimes in this soft material the very finger of the sculptor can be traced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 4/12/1938 | See Source »

...first time in its nine-year history the Allied Arts show of Dallas, Tex. fortnight ago admitted to its annual competition a piece of sculpture by a Negro. Last week a jury, including San Antonio's wintering Artist Henry Lee McFee, awarded it first prize. The sculptor: Thurmond Townsend, 26, a $9.40-a-week bus boy in the Talk of the Town, an eating place on Dallas' Main Street. Sculptor Townsend never tried modeling until one day a few months ago, when the mud in his back yard suddenly looked malleable and inviting. He fooled around, did busts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Marie in Mud | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...star-island, shaped like a football, is located in the southern constellation, Sculptor. Its light is so faint that the individual star members can be detected only through very powerful telescopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cluster of Stars Discovered By Camera of Harvard Observers | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

Disclosure of the group was a matter of good fortune, depending on the fact that an abnormally sensitive photographic plate chanced to be focused on Sculptor on a very clear night. The photograph on which the system was found was taken at the Harvard astronomical observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cluster of Stars Discovered By Camera of Harvard Observers | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...assumptions, however, the Sculptor cluster is sufficiently different from any other known star systems to warrant the belief that it represents a hitherto undisclosed classification, Dr. Shapley said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cluster of Stars Discovered By Camera of Harvard Observers | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

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