Word: sculptress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago when angular, handsome British Sculptress-Painter Barbara Hepworth agreed to look on at a surgical operation, she was afraid she might faint. Instead she found herself "fascinated by the complete perfection of the movements, more rigid and precise than those of a ballet . . . the remarkable tension, lighting and grouping...
Teamed with socialite Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Juliana Force did as much as anyone to pull contemporary U.S. art out of the side streets of Greenwich Village and points east & west, place it in galleries where the public could see and admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred...
Died. Juliana Force, 67, autocratic director of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, longtime good angel to struggling U.S. artists; after long illness; in Manhattan. As friend and secretary to Sculptress-Art Patroness Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, she began to buy and exhibit promising paintings in 1908, turned the Whitney's annual exhibition into a bellwether of contemporary U.S. painting...
When the old Havana-Guanabacoa road was converted into a superhighway, a venerable travelers' shrine known as the Virgin of the Road was destroyed. The Virgin's friends and neighbors, fearful of Cuba's frantic traffic, protested, and the government commissioned Sculptress Rita Longa (seated, right) to make a new Virgin. Still to be consecrated, the new Virgin has been a quick success. Even at night Cubans toss money in the pool, stuff currency in her hand. The money, collected regularly ($112.28 last week), is given to an orphanage...
First to handshake his way past the Trumans in the white & gold East Room was the dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, Brazil's Ambassador Carlos Martins, accompanied by his sculptress wife, Maria, and their handsome, 19-year-old daughter Nora. Portly Ambassador Martins bore up bravely in tight-fitting full-dress uniform of dark green, covered with gold-leaf embroidery, sword and medals. Said he: "One more pound and I have to get a new uniform...