Word: sculptress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the Wilds. Having failed at the two easiest careers he could think of ("I have been through an amazing amount of work, but my instincts are essentially restful"), he married a Manhattan sculptress and turned explorer-complete with full beard, a concession to a 600-mile hike through the Cameroons. Before his wife died, twelve years later, he had visited some 70 countries and commented on his travels (Black Majesty, Tom-Tom, Dark Islands...
Maude Phelps Hutchins, sculptress wife of the University of Chicago's president, had a life-size male nude all ready for casting in bronze, but no bronze. She wrote to WPB's Donald Nelson, asking how about letting her have some idle bronze on loan, if she promised to give it back the moment it was needed? The reply she got from Washington, "apparently written by one of Mr. Nelson's secretaries," counseled patience and looked forward to the postwar world. She wrote again, got more advice. Her young man of plaster (with hands held determinedly behind...
...will then hear unsuspected beauty in their everyday life. This music has a therapeutic value for city dwellers. . . ." Born in Los Angeles, Cage was trained for the ministry, gave up the Church to study the piano in Europe. His steadfast fellow percussionist is his blonde wife Xenia Cage, surrealist sculptress, daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest. She helps Cage find his instruments of "unsuspected beauty" in junk yards and hardware stores...
This heroic-size St. Francis, carved by the sculptress "Maria" from the hard, dark Jacaranda wood she likes to use, is the first South American sculpture ever bought for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection. The subject, St. Francis of Assist, is almost as closely related to Latin America as the wood from which it was wrought. The religious order of Franciscans, founded by this simplest and most lovable of saints, was identified with the Spanish conquest of America from the second voyage of Columbus...
Died. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 65, wealthy art patron, sculptress; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, she was the widow of Manhattan Financier Harry Payne Whitney, who died in 1930 and left her the bulk of his $63,000,000 fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco...