Word: zorach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sculptor Zorach took three years to carve his warmly maternal Mother and Child from a three-ton chunk of rose-colored marble. In the sculpting, he ignored the common practice of making a plaster model and translating it into stone mechanically. In an older and more honored tradition, Zorach worked the marble freehand, using a small plaster model only as a guide...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is less concerned with contemporary art than with the possibly eternal; in general, it leaves purchases of recent art to others. But last week the museum announced the purchase of a work by U.S. Sculptor William Zorach, 65. The Met's new sculpture is, however, on an eternal theme: Mother and Child. Moreover, it is an old friend; for three years, in the early '40s, it stood in the Metropolitan, on loan from the artist...
...public a grab-bag art show at the Whitney Museum. The terms were challengingly simple. Admission: $100 a couple and take your pick of more than 500 pieces of donated painting and sculpture-some of them by such top-notchers as Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, Isabel Bishop and William Zorach. The only catch: the art was all untitled and signatures were taped over with adhesive...