Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not let Gutzon Borglum finish his Confederate Memorial in bas relief on Stone Mountain, Georgia. The committee in charge quarreled with him or he quarreled with them-it all came to the same thing-but he broke up his clay models and fled and they hired a new sculptor-a not un-Benvenuto Cellinesque affair (TIME, Mar. 9, 16, Apr. 27, May 11). But Mr. Borglum is to have another charge...
Ragged Pecksniffs and old women; gentlemen out for a constitutional; bright-cheeked British children who had run away from their Nannas, paused to stare and listen, moved along, were replaced by others. So all day, in Hyde Park, people came and went, but the voice of Somerville Hague, sculptor, went on forever. Ensconced before Jacob Epstein's Memorial for W. H. Hudson* (TIME, June 1), fortified with a box of assorted sandwiches and mobled in a large ulster, he stated that he did not like Sculptor Epstein's conception of Rima, the wood nymph. "Look...
...Austrian Sculptor...
...Labor Government [Rt. Hon. F. W. Jowett]." A Labor Member hastened to say that a large number of people thought the memorial was distinguished and appropriate. Several Conservatives thought otherwise. One: That all memorials likely to cause acrimonious discussion be kept from public parks; another: That the sculptor, "owing to his inadequate knowledge of the English language," thought he had to produce a scarecrow to go with the birds; yet another: "Will the Government inform the House whether the deformed female with elephantiasis of the hands. . . ." Here the Speaker cut him short...
...discreet and inaccessible nook of Hyde Park, London, Premier Stanley Baldwin unveiled, last week, a memorial to Naturalist W. H. Hudson by Sculptor Jacob Epstein. As the sheet that swaddled the work was drawn aside, a murmer of horror went up from the onlookers, many of whom, it was noticed, were old men-dignified seigneurs, others whose peaked countenances and obvious irascibility made it clear that they could come under no definition other than that of curmudgeon. They aimed trembling fingers at a panel of the memorial which was said to represent Rima, bird-nymph, a character in Hudson...