Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have lost a hand, an ear or the side of your face in battle or in an accident, a Detroit sculptor named Beaver Edwards can make you a duplicate, in three weeks, so lifelike that only close observers can tell the difference. Like Hollywood's Jack Dawn (TIME, July 12), Beaver Edwards makes his realistic faces and ears of a rubbery plastic. Jack Dawn learned his methods as a Hollywood make-up chief. Beaver Edwards developed his by teaching sculpture at the Michigan College of Mortuary Science...
...Sculptor Edwards' specialty is hands. He can take an impression of a man's good left hand, make him a right-hand copy of it so realistic that even the fine skin lines show. The hand will hold a pencil or cigaret (see cut), and the fingers bend naturally if leaned against something solid. The coloring is lifelike (if it wears off, it can be touched up temporarily with leg make-up). An Edwards hand and arm costs...
...Sculptor Edwards says he does ten times as much business as anyone else in lifelike anatomical restorations. War is booming his business so heavily that he gets a new order every day, works seven days a week, has practically abandoned sculpturing...
...born, out of wedlock, at the Tuscan town of Vinci, in 1452. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother a peasant woman. The bastard was brought up by his father. Precociously gifted in painting and drawing, he was sent to work with Andrea del Verrocchio, a sculptor and art teacher of Florence...
...classes taught by Sculptor Chaim Gross (who discovered the Alliance the day after he left Ellis Island), Etchers William Auerbach-Levy, Painter Abbo Ostrowsky. The alumni of these classes include Sculptor Jacob Epstein, Painters Raphael and Isaac Soyer, Peter Blume, Philip Evergood...