Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that hard line, German Sculptor Gerhard Marcks dismisses most modern art. Marcks is a Lutheran in religion, a classicist in sculpture, and anything but bored. At 65 he is laboring mightily to produce the best sculptures of his career. Last week 36 of them were on view at the London Arts Council Gallery. Items...
...more powerful sculptor would probably not have excited such diverse reactions. Nor would one less powerful, since lesser men strive for the obvious, which Marcks scorns. His art. like that of the ancient Greeks, chiefly celebrates the wonder and joy of being alive, of being able to stand...
...away, it looked as if the gallery would soon have funds for not one but two rest rooms. To some Woodstock's gaiety seemed too close to complacency-none of the big names had produced works for the occasion that were important, or even particularly adventurous. Grumbled Abstract Sculptor Herman Cherry: "Cocktail parties . . . flourish like poison ivy in this vicinity." But most Woodstock artists find that oil and Martinis mix well enough, and that art need not be great to be worth while...
...Francisco-born Ellen Rand, daughter of Christopher Temple Emmet (a lawyer and grandnephew of Irish Patriot Robert Emmet), went to study in Paris with Sculptor Frederick MacMonnies. "Everybody was running around that studio," a friend remembers, "nude male models, and there was even a panther in a cage. And here she came into this chaos and just sat there painting simply beautiful things." At the turn of the century, Ellen Rand held her first one-man exhibit in Manhattan, and the procession of the rich and famous to her studio began...
According to the famous photographer of women, Philippe Halsman, "she has the finest figure of any actress I have known." In Paris a new phrase (les lollos) is being used in brassiere advertisements. In Lon don Sir Jacob Epstein, the famed sculptor, has done a bust of Gina, and in Manhattan, Gossipist Walter Winchell has been gushing about the new "Lollopalooza...