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...Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick the winner. Last year Sterne gave first place to a design of two reposeful, smooth figures by Manhattan's William Zorach, returned to San Francisco to explode in outraged telegrams when he learned that Ronnebeck had been selected again...
Abby Rockefeller has never successfully downed the idea that to pay as much as Lizzie Bliss used to pay for single pictures is slightly sinful. As far as is known, the highest price Mrs. Rockefeller ever paid for a work of art was $20,000 which she gave Marguerite Zorach for a tapestry portrait of the Rockefeller family in front of their summer home at Seal Harbor (TIME, Nov. 4). In general, $1,000 is her top price. This has tended to bring her the best work of unknown artists, the second-rate work of men with established reputations...
York has seen since Depression, this was a show not to be missed. With the exception of two pieces, one that could not be borrowed and another that had been stolen, it contained all the work in wool embroidery that Marguerite Thompson Zorach has ever done, all she will ever do. No humble samplers, the embroidered pictures took years to finish. Nearly all were ordered on commission, cost their purchasers from $1,000 to $20,000 apiece. Wife of William Zorach, able modern sculptor, tousled, amiable Marguerite Thompson Zorach thinks of herself primarily as a painter. California-born...
...annual "$100 show." Mrs. Halpert's previous $100 shows suffered from studio remnants. But no critics could spot unwanted leftovers in this week's exhibit. For sale at $100 each were pictures by such U. S. artists as Peggy Bacon, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ernest Fiene, Marguerite Zorach, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer and many another. Most of the pictures had been marked down from $300 or more...
When the Palace plans reached the U. S. last week Sculptor William Zorach let out a cry of protest, charging that the Soviets had stolen an idea submitted by him for a Lenin memorial in Leningrad. Zorach, too, drew concentric cylinders but they represented a base for a shaft that telescoped into a streamlined statue of Lenin. Picking words that would sting most he declared of Iofan's work: "It goes back to the most decadent pseudo-Roman development, the sort of thing old kings and old queens loved, a sort of tremendous wedding cake . . . incorporating the worst archaic...