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Died. Frank Lascelles, 58, sculptor, pageant director (Canadian tercentenary pageant, 1908; Coronation Durbar in Calcutta, 1912; British Empire Pageants, 1924); after long illness; in poverty; in Brighton, England...
...bust of President Emeritus Lowell will be presented to the University in two week by John Wilson, the sculptor. The bust is to be placed in the faculty room of University Hall...
...Roosevelt arose and said: "This memorial. ... I gladly accept on behalf of the U. S. As we look back I think that we would choose the word 'sincerity' as fitting him most of all." Thus was honor done to a dead states man and to a living sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, present in the drizzle with wife, son and daughter. Bryan is the sixth hero whom he has immortalized in Washington.* A chance for him to do a seventh hero ended lately when the House killed Senate Joint Resolution 21, permitting the erection of a Borglum statue to Colonel...
...American life." Architect Frank Lloyd Wright meets with Critic Craven's approval. One of the few art writers of today to uphold George Grey Barnard and his vast vaporings in stone, Mr. Craven recalls that no less a person than Rodin once openly envied this aging U. S. sculptor. Of Jacob Epstein's 100-odd "masculine" bronzes, he says: "There is not a dead one in the lot. . . . One of the most original styles in all sculpture." He advises Jose Clemente Orozco to return to Mexico if he wants to preserve the representative sun and shadow...
...When Sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies was commissioned (in the will of Mrs. Angelina Crane) to fashion a statue of Civic Virtue for Manhattan's City Hall Park, he modeled an upright youth spurning two coiled mermaids who represented Deceit and Disillusion. The unveiling in 1922 caused an unavailing delirium of protests from women's organizations and others which found, in the sex of Disillusion and Deceit and in their proximity to the youth's feet, an affront to womanhood. Glad of an opportunity to have fun, Manhattan newspapers exulted in lavish, impartial ridicule, made the incident...