Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bird sashayed from side to side, opened its beak and sang its song. The little bird's perch was in a wooden tree which overhung the head of a startled-looking horseman (see cut), also carved of wood. The whole thing formed the central figure of famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles's latest piece of sculpture, Man and Nature...
...Nature, commissioned by Rockefeller Center, Inc., as part of their program for sculptural and fresco decorations in Rockefeller Center's slab-sided skyscrapers, stocky, bob-haired Sculptor Milles had worked for three years. Milles got the idea for his singing statue from a line by German Poet Johann Gottfried Seume: "Where song is, pause and listen; evil people have no song." Taking three huge blocks of north Michigan pine, each made by pressing planks together like a gigantic piece of plywood, Carl Milles carved the biggest one into his medieval-looking horseman and tree. From the other blocks...
...afternoon last week, Milles's singing sculpture was unveiled. In bristly English Sculptor Milles explained his statue, wiped his forehead when he had finished. Said he afterward: "A sculptor likes to vork, you know. But dis making speeches iss much harder. Yust as soon as I open my mouth I tink I am saying vot iss wrong. I feel much better now dis iss ofer...
These sightless figures were made by sightless sculptors. They were children (average age: 13) from the Oregon State School for the Blind at nearby Salem. Once a week, instructed by 28-year-old Sculptor George Justin Blais. 16 students (eight boys, eight girls) gathered at the Federal Art Center to model in clay. Working from distant memories and oral descriptions, sometimes using their schoolmates for models, the blind children tried to make up in touch what they lack in sight. Instructor Blais suggested ideas (whiskered men, cowboys, animals, etc.), criticized results as work progressed, but permitted his pupils...
...Biscuit. From the lush meadows of Owner Howard's ranch, they coaxed the retired champion, father of seven and 80 pounds heavier than he was a year ago, to make a personal appearance. First he was to help unveil his own statue, a life-sized bronze by Cowboy Sculptor Tex Wheeler. Then he was to lead the parade to the post for the inaugural running of the Seabiscuit Handicap...