Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ivan Mestrovic, sculptor Litt.D...
...celebration came as something of a consolation prize to Sculptor Zorach. One of four artists accused of past left-wing sympathies in the noisy row which greeted the traveling "Sport in Art" show in Dallas (TIME, March 12),-he had just run into another rebuff at the hands of Texas patriots: cancellation of a $124,755 commission for three huge sculptured aluminum panels designed for the exterior of Houston's new $16 million Bank of the Southwest. The bank's explanation: the sculpture was "too modern," and somehow seemed inappropriate after the Bank of the Southwest changed...
...Brass Factory. In his long career, Sculptor Zorach has had more than his share of artistic hard knocks. As an immigrant boy in Cleveland, Ohio, he earned pennies selling newspapers, worked in a machine shop and brass factory before he quit school for good after the seventh grade and became an apprentice lithographer. Saving up $160, he set off for New York to study art, got back home flat broke almost a year later and saved up more money, this time to go to Paris...
...Yugoslav-born Ivan Mestrovic, 72, the Gold Medal for Sculpture, at the Joint Ceremonial of the National Institute and American Academy of Arts and Letters, as the leading U.S. sculptor of religious subjects...
...Italian-born Sculptor Harry Bertoia, 41, the Craftsmanship Medal, and to Muralist Hildreth Meiere, 63, the Fine Arts Medal, by the American Institute of Architects, meeting in Los Angeles...