Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small town of Threerivers, Calif., the largest piece of wood carving in the U.S.* has been under way since last autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...
...last week the hero had half emerged from scattered tons of sequoia chips. With Blue-Ox Babe slung lightly on his shoulders, he looked as if he could indeed pick his teeth with a pine log. Sculptor Barnes says: "I'd like to do Kit Carson too, and Buffalo Bill...
...Maria's" recent Manhattan exhibition, critics found her work in general "pagan and violent," her Christ and St. Francis, spiritual and austere. Some saw in her work the influence of the French sculptor, Pierre Bourdelle...
...chapel began to decompose shortly after it was built, being unfit to bear exposure to the air of this variable climate. But the cemetery corporation had no trouble in securing an exact copy. Fronting the chapel is one of the most noticeable features of the cemetery--the Sphinx. The sculptor succeeded admirably in getting rid of the disturbing mystery that distinguishes its Egyptian counterpart. There are no foreign elements, such as beauty, in this Sphinx. From his vantage point on Chapel Hill, the visitor may catch sight of a giant chess castle. From its summit one gets a clearer view...
...Angeles 16 years ago to build houses in the stark international style, but whose ideas have since thawed out in the California sunshine. The others represented in San Francisco's exhibition were nearly all in their 30s or early 40s; Harwell Hamilton Harris, who used to be a sculptor, has been building houses for only seven years; his paper-paneled sliding doors, hip roofs and mat-floored interiors are strongly influenced by Japanese architecture and the work of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. William Wilson Wurster, who gets much of his inspiration from rambling, old-style California ranch-house architecture...