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Awarded. Lorado Taft, sculptor, the annual gold medal of Manhattan's Holland Society for achievement in art; the Duchess of Talleyrand (onetime Anna Gould), the Cross of the French Legion of Honor; Joel Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix...
...behalf. A nurse and a taxicab executive testified that the late John Wendel, supposedly a bachelor, had confessed to them his secret marriage and the existence of a son. Piece de resistance of the Morris claim was a bust of John Wendel executed in bronze by one Julian Bowes. Sculptor Bowes said that the science of dynamic symmetry had enabled him to reconstruct a perfect three-dimensional likeness of his subject from two old photographs. To the vast amusement of the audience and embarrassment of the Court, it was demonstrated that the bust's spectacles, mustache and derby were...
...Beaux Arts in Paris. For ten years he slaved over an easel with remarkably little success. When he was middleaged, he carved one day a nude figure in wood. It seemed the most satisfactory work he had ever done, and from then on Aristide Maillol was a sculptor. Recognition came first from Germany where, just before the War, his calm, placid nudes were hailed with delight as 'the essence of Greece...
...Brancusi roll, sold in Greenwich Village bakeshops, is S shaped, pointed at either end. suggestive of the ultra-simplified fish and bird shapes Sculptor Brancusi makes...
...exhibition which opened last week will move to San Diego, to Los Angeles, to Portland. Ore. The Honolulu Museum is calling for it. It includes 15 huge Kakemono-like drawings which Sculptor Noguchi made in Peiping and about 20 of his well-known portrait heads: Dancer Martha Graham, Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich. Authors John Erskine and Thornton Niven Wilder, Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. Left out of the California exhibition is the newest Noguchi, a great white plaster shape something like a starfish and something like a woman which he has named "Miss Expanding Universe...