Word: welders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half of the 20th century shakes down into perspective, it seems certain that the art contribution of the Spanish contingent will bulk surprisingly large. Top banana of the bunch is, of course, Pablo Picasso. But there are also Juan Gris, pioneer Sculptor-Welder Julio González, Surrealists Joán Miró and Salvador Dali. And now another name is being nominated for the list: the late Manuel Martinez Hugué (1872-1945), better known simply as Manolo, whose small-scale bronzes and terra-cotta sculptures are the most earthy and most intensely Spanish art works...
...modern-minded jury considered 171 candidates, whose styles ranged from meticulous realism to slapdash expressionism, then placed its stamp of approval firmly on New York's avantgarde. The winners, chosen by Museum of Modern Art Collections Curator Dorothy C. Miller. Chicago-born Painter Arthur Osver and Manhattan Sculptor-Welder Theodore Roszak...
...First prize ($2,000) to Bronx Sculptor-Welder Seymour Lipton, 53. for his bronze-braised, 8-ft. tall The Cloak (left). Lipton, who finally retired from dentistry two years ago to become a full-time sculptor and now has work in eleven museums, takes his cue from biological forms, feels that The Cloak, with its enclosing forms, symbolizes the fact that for man, as well as plant life, "protection is necessary if there is to be growth." ¶Second prize ($1,000) to Abstract Expressionist James Brooks, 50, for his swirling 7-ft.-by-7-ft. R-1953 (right...
...brothers are also learning). Then Tuff turned Gene over to Marv Jenson, a local mink rancher, who had developed the once-promising heavyweight Rex Layne. Young Gene was the kind of willing worker that Jenson had always wanted. Out of high school, he had a job as an apprentice welder, in the repair shop at Kennecott Copper's great open-pit mine, but he still had the energy to get up at five o'clock every morning and put in three to four miles of roadwork. He also worked out daily in Jenson's gym. After...
...Greenwich Villager who spots a discarded sewing machine, old drainpipe, truck fender or pile of angle irons these days knows just where to take it; to the cold-water flat of Sculptor-Welder Richard Stankiewicz, 34, who with little more than an acetylene torch, a welder's tools and his own vivid imagination turns junk into sculpture. Says he: "I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting and then try to make something beautiful out of it. It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty...