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...scores of other bequests to natives whose brain or brawn had reflected credit on his beloved state.* Last week another of the Senator's benefactions posthumously bore fruit when the San Francisco Art Association awarded the first $2,000 Phelan Traveling Scholarship to Helen Elizabeth Phillips, a young sculptor who in all her 23 years has never been outside the Golden Bear State...
Blue-eyed, honey-haired Helen Elizabeth Phillips is a graduate of Redwood City's Sequoia High School, served apprenticeship in the stoneyards of the California School of Fine Arts under the sympathetic eye of Sculptor Ralph Stackpole. When Helen Phillips later entered the school, she found Sculptor Stackpole's vigorous, massive modernism much to her liking. Working directly on the stone like her tutor, Sculptor Phillips completed and exhibited two determined, crisply defined heads, took the Art Association's $300 Purchase Prize for a sturdy Young Woman (see cut). Her scholarship money will enable Sculptor Phillips...
Fortnight ago a gang of WPA workmen were placidly sandpapering the features of a marble George Washington in Philadelphia's dark old City Hall. Suddenly a hoarse, poodle-haired Italian swept among them, seized their abrasives, roared: "Halt! Halt!" The impulsive newcomer was Sculptor Giuseppe Donato, the Philadelphia Municipal Art Jury's most mercurial member, who well knows that sandpaper is not good for the texture of marble. Sculptor Donato forthwith ran to the office of Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, puffed out his complaint. No art expert, Mayor Wilson gave Sculptor Donato authority to complete the cleaning...
Columbia University Sculptor John Angel ... Litt.D. President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College ... L.L.D. Retiring President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Wellesley College ... Litt.D...
...years her husband would not give her a divorce. Murry felt inferior to Katherine Mansfield, but he did not consider her a genius. (Once, though, he wrote her: "I know this, too, that you and I are geniuses.") Only two real geniuses he has ever met, he says, were Sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and D. H. Lawrence. Gaudier was for a time a close friend, then became a bitter enemy. Because of his threatening letters Murry went in fear of his life, hardly ventured out. Once Gaudier burst into his room, slapped his face. Murry did nothing at the time...