Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instant family manuscripts were looked into. She, her husband, her son and her lawyers all spelled it 'Dolley.' It appears that way in the original text of legal documents, but is commonly changed to 'Dolly' in copies made by clerks. Her correspondence with the sculptor [John H.] Browere specifically rejects Dorothea, Dorothy, Dolli and Dolly. Inquiry at Guilford College, N.C., where the minutes of the New Garden (Quaker) Monthly Meeting are preserved, disclosed that it was 'Dolley' in the record of her birth...
Matisse's knife might never challenge his brush, but his work is still something any sculptor could be proud of. He began in 1899, at the age of 29, and worked in fits & starts until 1930, never long enough to develop a steady style. The gleaming bronzes at the Tate alternate between muscular realism and cubist distortion, are smooth and rough, delicate and grossly bulky. Yet each reflects the Matisse eye for form...
From Tigers to Torsos. Up to 1905, Sculptor Matisse is reasonably realistic and plainly the student of Rodin. There is a precise, crouched Tiger done in tense, slashing planes, a half-sized Slave, weary and hangdog. His women are more expressionistic, seem more like mere sketches for future work. His nude Madeleine, Nude Leaning on the Hands and Reclining Nude in Chemise are roughly scooped out to emphasize a side-slung hip, the languid sag of a relaxed body...
...Manhattan, the National Arts Foundation announced its selection of the top artists of 1952: Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, whose 38-figure Fountain of Faith was unveiled in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Va. last fall; Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who made her farewell appearance at the Metropolitan Opera last spring; Dramatist Sean (Cock-adoodle Dandy) O'Casey, "the most magnificent prose writer in the modern theater"; and the Dancers of Bali...
Perhaps the most unusual method of recalling the date of a subscription came from a woman in Manhattan, who was looking over some copies of TIME many years ago. She writes: "I came across an item about . . . Sculptor Pietro Montana. I cut out the article and gave it to Pietro Montana, whom I had recently met. He had not seen the account when it was published, and he was amazed at TIME'S definite information and its exact way of stating facts...