Word: sculptor
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...architects, hurrying to complete the Capitol after its burning by the British in 1814, decided that nothing would be more fitting for the central rotunda than a heroic statue of the Father of His Country. For this they got Congress to vote $5,000, and commissioned U. S. Sculptor Horatio Greenough to carve the figure. Sculptor Greenough promptly went off to the soft Tuscan air of Florence, Italy, where he rented a large studio, enlarged it further, secured a huge block of Carrara marble, sharpened his chisels, and went to work...
...high, 6 ft. wide and weighed about 20 tons. With enormous difficulty it was hoisted to a dray and hauled by swaying spans of oxen all the way to Leghorn. For enlarging his studio, hiring servants and replanting trees from Florence to Leghorn, Sculptor Greenough sent Congress a bill for $8,311.90. As no U. S. warship big enough to carry the work of art to the U. S. was handy, the Government chartered the merchantman Sea for $6,300. It took two weeks of fussing to load the huge statue on the Sea. The ship's captain charged...
...svelte Bronze Youth by the Belgian sculptor Georges Minne contrasts with the emotionally powerful terra cotta Head of a Woman by Wilhelm Lehmbruck and makes the essentially German qualities of the latter all the more apparent. Dainty modern Nymphenburg porcelains made from the eighteenth century molds by Franz Bustelli are placed near the delicate bronze antelope by the contemporary sculptress, Renee Sintenis and show her to be part of an old German tradition of technical excellence. Violently abstract paintings and prints along with sharply realistic ones suggest something of the chaos of postwar Germany...
...never attack the intellect or the emotions. Klee's refuge is in dreams. Like the surrealists, he portrays vague images conjured up from the subconscious and paints them with a tongue-in-the-cheek seriousness that has been completely misunderstood by his lugubrious colleagues in Paris. Nolde, like the sculptor Lehmbruck, is German in his intensity and paints with an inner fire that is typical of the expressionistic movement in Germany...
...producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...