Word: welder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university ties, however, came late in life, and basically he remains a Cambridge resident, a "townie." He grew up in the poor part of the city, the son of an Irish welder. Following what has become an almost cliched Irish-American script, he went to St. Mary's High School here and took his orders as a Benedictine monk. When his father died in 1966 he left the priesthood and turned briefly to business before entering politics. He is presently Chairman of the Cambridge Model Cities program, one of the most successful in the nation...
...Decatur, III., he remembered, "I played on trains and around factories just like I played in hills and creeks. Machinery has never been an alien element; it's been in my nature." During his college years, he worked for a summer as a riveter and spot welder at Studebaker's South Bend plant. Looking through French art periodicals in his art-student days, he saw how Pablo Picasso, working with the Spanish metalworker Julio González, had built small sculptures of welded steel. In the fall of 1933, he abandoned painting, rented space in a machine shop...
...also began to resemble the small, stage-like Surrealist compositions of Alberto Giacometti, whose work Smith admired because it also incorporated the Freudian dream imagery so dear to Joyce. In 1940 Smith moved to Bolton Landing, and during the war years, he spent most of his time at his welder's trade, working on locomotives and tanks at a nearby plant. But by 1945, he had accumulated an exquisite series of small, neo-Surrealistic bronze-and-steel tabletop tableaux. Both Home of the Welder and Reliquary House are rich with Smith's private sexual imagery...
...flames." This remarkable event was entirely invisible to Israelis and foreign dignitaries watching the parade. When a $1,000,000 fire damaged Tel Aviv's Lydda Airport in October, El Fatah promptly took credit for setting it. The Israelis insist that the blaze was started accidentally by a welder's torch...
...late U.S. Sculptor-Welder David Smith or to Britain's Richard Smith, whose shaped canvases won the grand prize at the current Sao Paulo Bienal. -Not all fabricators do such good work. A duplicate of Die was ordered from a Los Angeles firm for last spring's County Museum sculpture survey show, but its surface is badly scratched and, for lack of proper interior bracing, it has an oddly flimsy look...