Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sculptor Frederick MacMonnies, creator of "Civic Virtue," effigy in City Hall Park, Manhattan, declared last week that he had learned to like the nickname, "The Rough Guy," which newspaper wits bestowed upon his statue. "I have suffered much," said...
Thus wrote Walt Whitman and thus Sculptor Jo Davidson has modeled him, stepping with a fine stride, his long greatcoat billowing out in his van like a useless, gallant mainsail. The design was chosen last week as the best of those submitted for the Walt Whitman Memorial which is to be erected in Manhattan by the Authors' Club. The design will soon be shown at a Whitman exhibition in the New York Public Library...
Died. General Felix Agnus, 86, onetime sculptor, veteran of many wars, sometime publisher of the Baltimore American* and founder-publisher of the Baltimore Star; at Baltimore, after eight months of lingering illness. Before ne was 27 he had served in the army of Napoleon III, had fought under Garibaldi, was a Brigadier General in the (U. S.) Union Army. He saved the life of General Kilpatrick at Big Bethel; was a witness of Sheridan's ride. He was an original member of the Associated Press. His decorations, his clubs were numerous...
...whole the exhibit was marked by restraint, conservatism -very little cubism, very little of the "very modern" effects. Two instructors in the Art Institute covered two of the chief prizes. Albin Polasek, sculptor, took the Logan medal and $1,500 for his statue Unfettered quite a different piece of work from his statue of "A Fat Lady Hailing a Bus" butt of wits and columnists, which stands outside the museum and was made to order of a park board. Leopold Seyfert with a self portrait took another medal and $1,000. There were two posthumous Sargents, a goodly number...
Straightway Londoners gave vent to their feelings through the national safety valve, "a letter to The Times." Roundly they berated the noted sculptor, C. S. Jagger, for having produced "a monument which will be interpreted as a glorification of war." Sir Ian Hamilton, onetime (1901-02) Chief-of-Staff to Lord Kitchener, spoke for many when he said, quoting the late Marquis Curzon: "To my mind, the ugliest thing in the world is a gun, with one exception only-the howitzer. The howitzer resembles a toad squatting and ready to spit fire out of its mouth. Nothing more hideous could...