Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gutzon Borglum could carve up a mountain, why couldn't he? For years he had been itching to, so Boston-born Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, 39, bought a mountain - a small one - in the Black Hills of South Dakota and laid his plans. He was going to chip it down to a 300-ft.-high monument : Sioux Chief Crazy Horse, who wiped out Custer's cavalry at Little Big Horn...
Tepexpan Man, probably the oldest known American, had acquired a face last week. In the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, Vienna-born Sculptor Leo Steppat made the face out of statistics and Plasticine...
...Sculptor Haseltine's brilliant, blinkered devotion to animal subjects has made him tops in a narrow field. He has done prize pigs, sheep and dogs as well-some of them in 24-carat gold inlaid with precious gems-but horses are his forte, at a fee of $1,800 to $30,000 apiece. "I used to feel a bit put out," says Haseltine with a deprecating shrug, "when people referred to me as 'the horse-sculptor chap...
...reputation as a sculptor spread, he was commissioned by Edward VII to do the King's mount, Kildare. Then Queen Alexandra introduced him to her barouche horse, Splendor, George V sent around his great Shire stallion, Field Marshal V, and the young gentleman's career was assured. Later, in the U.S., he met and molded for bronze the late Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand, George Widener's Eight Thirty, Jock Whitney's Royal Minstrel, Marshall Field's Stimulus, Sir Galahad Third ("You wouldn't turn around to look at Galahad...
Died. Yomejiro Noguchi,* 72, Japanese poet and professor who in his younger days came to the U.S., married a Bryn Mawr girl (their son: Manhattan Sculptor Isamu Noguchi), then went back to Tokyo, where he discarded his Western wife and ideas, became a great booster of Japanese imperialism; of stomach cancer; in Toyooka, Japan...