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...Small Sculptor Prize of the Rosenthal China Corp. to the newest U. S. sculptor : Atanas Katchamakoff of Palm Springs, Calif. Sculptor Katchamakoff has been a U. S. sculptor some six weeks, received his final citizenship papers just before the contest closed...
Hard is the life of a portraitist. Bitterly did British sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman realize this last week. Year ago he won a competition to design an equestrian memorial statue of the late Field Marshal Lord Haig. In his own mind Sculptor Hardiman decided that when he was ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...
...Douglas Haig, Field Marshal, and no nonsense. This did not look like Lord Haig, it did not look like his horse. To the expert eyes of letters-to-the-Times writers, it did not look like a horse at all. Loudest objector was Lady Haig who found that Sculptor Hardiman had made her husband "much...
...Meekly Sculptor Hardiman made another model. Abundantly supplied with photographs from amateur critics, he gave the Field Marshal a slouching seat and set him on a nervous, long-necked racer. This second model was passed by the Office of Works, last week drew a second storm of protest from British horsemen...
Ever since the forceful, forbidding bas-relief of Rima- was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin at Hyde Park in 1925, the work of Jacob Epstein, U. S.-born, London-dwelling Jewish sculptor, has been big news to the British Press, bitterly attacked by the conservative, enthusiastically praised by enemies of prettiness. Last week the newest Epstein, a 6-ft. marble called Genesis, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. The storm broke the next morning. The statue is of a heavy, brooding, pregnant female figure with the synthetic Mongolian features of most Epsteins- low forehead, slanting eyes, Negroid nose, mouth and chin...