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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frenchman Aristide Maillol (pronounced Mayoll) made a long false start. For ten years he tried to paint; for another six he designed tapestries. When he was nearly 40 he took a tree trunk, carved from it a nude figure that he liked very much. Thereupon Aristide Maillol became a sculptor. At 78 he is dean of them all. Last week a show of his work opened in Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery, demonstrated Oldster Maillol's extraordinary talent for imbuing sculpture with both vitality and repose...
There he still lives in the pink house where he was born, filling endless notebooks with his sharp, detailed sketches, turning out his statues in a vast, litter-strewn studio. "I invent nothing," says tireless Sculptor Maillol, "no more than the apple tree can pretend to have invented its apples...
...Hawaii Artist O'Keeffe happily painted fishhooks, tropical flowers, lava bridges, waterfalls-but nary a pineapple. To Dole on her return she presented a vivid red canvas of crab's claw ginger, a lush green papaya tree (Dole's rival is papaya juice...
Southern pine is a sticky, spindly tree that grows weedlike in every abandoned field, reproduces a stand of timber (unlike the North's mighty, slow-growing spruce and fir) in 15 or 20 years. It has long been used for kraft (boxes and wrapping) paper...
...tree for their Dame. Leona Joy Gordan. The Boston Herald...