Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what had happened. The architect in charge, Dr. Ralph Adams Cram of Boston, had already employed an English sculptor, a fine man of great ability, one John Angell, but still a foreigner, to execute twelve statues in the Cathedral's baptistry...
...That Sculptor Angell was the only foreign artisan that had been engaged...
...American sculptors take any position against the employment of fine artists from other countries in order that they may get the work themselves, I will do everything in my power to stop any such sculptor from getting any work on the Cathedral. . . . Neither the trustees nor I will be dictated to by any artist or any sculptor whatever...
...city council of Providence, R. I., has for some time been looking for a design for a War Memorial. A sculptor named Pietro Montana submitted one. The committee liked it. Then Mrs. Whitney sent in hers, and the committee liked it better. Sculptor Montana was notified that his would not do after all. Mrs. Whitney was notified that hers would probably be accepted. But certain members of the Rhode Island chapter of the Institute of Architects inspected Mrs. Whitney's idea and found it "appalling." They notified the memorial committee that they thought that the monument...
...Slavonia. He received little better early schooling than was given other peasant boys of his age. For several years he tended sheep in Dalmatia for his Croatian parents. Later he moved to Spalato where he was apprenticed to a master mason. He then determined to become a sculptor and managed to scrape together sufficient funds for study in Vienna. In 1902 his first public exhibition was held. Since then his works have appeared several times in America and in all the great centers of Europe. Mestrovic is now Rector of the Academy of Art at Zagreb...