Word: sculptress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed both neat and therapeutic: people in or on the edge of a destructive tizzy need to break something. The breakable object should be something that makes a satisfying smash, but not be so expensive or useful that the smasher feels remorse. Mr. Melville got a friend of his, Sculptress Frances Ferrer, to design him such an object. Last week Mr. Melville's smashable went on sale in Manhattan and Chicago, was snapped up by the hundreds at 50? each by citizens with breakage in their hearts. The object, named "Wackaroo," is a small (4½ inches high), idol...
...Louis got ready for his next knockout by visiting a Manhattan art gallery, having his picture taken cheek-by-jowl with Sculptress%Ruth Yates's bust of the present world's heavyweight champion...
...Manhattan's conservative Knoedler Gallery gave its second floor over to animal Society. The Society portraitist was pretty, petite, 28-year-old June Harrah, who sculps likenesses of champion dogs and race horses for the doggy and horsy set. Sculptress Harrah's deft statuettes (of such equestrian nobility as Seabiscuit, Challedon and Jadaan, the grey stallion ridden by the late Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik) excited horse-& dog-lovers, also brought high marks from many a high-brow art critic. Daughter of a gentleman rancher who founded the town of Harrah, Wash., June Harrah also...
...spare her colleagues whatever "embarrassment" her public defense of King Leopold might bring them, Sculptress Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson resigned as vice president of the Belgian Relief Fund, took a deep breath and wrote to 50 fellow committeewomen: "Because of various documents from Belgium which are in my possession I am firmly convinced that the action taken by His Majesty, King Leopold, in surrendering was the only course possible and I know that his contemplated action was only taken after consultation with the British and French commanders and was well known to them in advance and, therefore, when uninformed persons make...
...Artist Despujols is a sound French academic painter who got off to the right start by winning the Grand Prix de Rome. His attractive blonde wife Millicent, a favorite model, is a Minneapolis girl whom he met when she studied the piano at Fontainebleau. Last spring Sculptress Lillie Harper organized her fellow Fontainebleau alumni, borrowed the buildings of Gull Hill School at Orleans, Mass., got Artist Despujols to transfer Fontainebleau's art school to Cape Cod. There this week, on Bastille Day, it made its formal bow to local society...