Word: zorach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens of San Antonio, Texas turned out last week in admiring tribute to the dean of U.S. sculptors, Lithuanian-born William Zorach, 69, whose massive figures have for the past four decades decorated the U.S. scene. On view at the McNay Art Institute was a retrospective showing of 27 of Zorach's sculptures, photographs of his best-known works, and 65 of his drawings and watercolors, on loan from leading U.S. museums and collectors. Editorialized the San Antonio News: "The most beautiful and exciting sculpture that it has ever been our happy privilege to see." The San Antonio Express...
...celebration came as something of a consolation prize to Sculptor Zorach. One of four artists accused of past left-wing sympathies in the noisy row which greeted the traveling "Sport in Art" show in Dallas (TIME, March 12),-he had just run into another rebuff at the hands of Texas patriots: cancellation of a $124,755 commission for three huge sculptured aluminum panels designed for the exterior of Houston's new $16 million Bank of the Southwest. The bank's explanation: the sculpture was "too modern," and somehow seemed inappropriate after the Bank of the Southwest changed...
...Snorted Zorach, who indignantly denies ever having been a Communist sympathizer: "The figures would fit any Texas building, because they tell symbolically the history of Texas...
...Brass Factory. In his long career, Sculptor Zorach has had more than his share of artistic hard knocks. As an immigrant boy in Cleveland, Ohio, he earned pennies selling newspapers, worked in a machine shop and brass factory before he quit school for good after the seventh grade and became an apprentice lithographer. Saving up $160, he set off for New York to study art, got back home flat broke almost a year later and saved up more money, this time to go to Paris...
...auspices of the U.S. Information Agency. The four pictures in dispute: the Addison Gallery of American Art's Skaters by the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Cleveland Museum of Art's The Park, Winter, by Leon Kroll, 71; Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's Fishermen by William Zorach, 69; and National Pastime, by Ben Shahn...