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Ball, a fairly well-known sculptor in his day, and a contemporary of Daniel Chester French (of John Harvard fame), was born in Charlestown. Mass. in 1819. At the age of 35 he joined the growing circle of expatriated American artists studying and working in Florence. Ball specialized in portrait statuary and commissioned monuments on a grand scale, "few of which are aesthetically interesting," notes art historian Milton Brown. Ball's most famous works proved to be the two copies of the Emancipation group: the other one is in Washington. D.C. "More than any Lincoln memorial of the time...
...search of a memorable depiction of the irresistible invasion of computers into American homes, Art Director Rudy Hoglund approached George Segal, the world-famous sculptor. Segal almost never accepts commercial commissions but Hoglund thought Segal's "stark and dramatic settings in which the eye is drawn to objects," were perfectly suited to the first Machine of the Year. Segal enthusiastically agreed Hoglund went to Richardson Smith, a design firm in Columbus to create the mock computers portrayed on the cover...
...least-known artist ever to get a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, an honor usually reserved for the Picassos or at least the Frank Stellas of this world. She is almost 71, French, a resident of New York City since 1938, and a mature sculptor by any conceivable definition of the word. Until quite recently not many people wanted to look at her work, and her recognition was slight, at least compared with the fame that surrounded that implacably durable Queen Bee of the art world, Louise Nevelson. Bourgeois belonged to no groups...
...abandoned in 1917: sculpture. Apparently inspired by her assistant and acolyte, Juan Hamilton, 36, O'Keeffe finally completed Abstraction, an 11-ft. spiral of painted cast aluminum. Now on display in a sculpture show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, her first major work as a sculptor gives her further claim to the title of doyenne of American...
...appears on the screen is a highly evolved creature. One special-effects crew tried to make the spaceman and failed, spending a reported $700,000 in the process. Then Spielberg turned to Carlo Rambaldi, an Italian painter and sculptor. Rambaldi first came to the U.S. in 1975 as a consultant on King Kong, then in 1978 set up a small shop in Los Angeles. He explained the construction of E.T. to TIME'S Joseph Pilcher, beginning with sketches and a series of clay models for screen testing for Spielberg before building the creature. Finally, Rambaldi made an aluminum...