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Second prize ($1,500) went to Russian-born William Zorach for a monumental piece of sculpture entitled "Mother and Child." Three years ago Sculptor Zorach toured Spain looking for objets d'art. He found a two-ton block of pinkish blue grained marble which he ordered shipped immediately to his studio in Maine. Sculptor Zorach, who is .an apostle of "taille direct" in sculpture, pecked at his block for 18 months and produced the forceful, serene group that won the admiration of New York last winter, won $1.500 in Chicago last week...
...compared-with it in scope and quality- some 546 pieces were shown by such famed artisans as Robert Aitken, Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Stirling Calder, Allan Clark., Hunt Diederich, Charles Grafly, Malvina Hoffman, Gaston Lachaise, Aristide Maillol, Paul Manship. Edward McCartan, Robert Tait McKenzie, Charles Gary Rumsey, Mahonri Young, William Zorach. Those who inspected them were in full accord with Borough President Henry Hesterberg of Brooklyn, who in his opening address made the forthright comment: "This to my mind is a very great proposition." But fine, frequent and varied as are its temporary exhibits, it is Brooklyn Museum's permanent...
...Arnold Friedman, Wood Gaylor, Anne Goldthwaite, Bernar Gussow, Samuel Halpert, George O. ("Pop") Hart, Stefan Hirsch, Morris Kantor, Bernard Karfiol, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Richard Lahey, Robert Laurent, Louis Lozowick, Reuben Nakian, Jules Pascin, Joseph Pollet, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Dorothy Varian, A. Walkowitz, Max Weber, Marguerite and William Zorach...
...calm, confident above a stolid mass which scarcely defines itself as a body. There are many other works by individual chisellers, Hunt Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Leo Lentelli, Henry Augustus Lukeman, Edward McCartan, Eli Nadelman, the Piccirilli brothers, Lorado Taft, William Zorach. . . . If the modern U. S. lacks the glory of a sculptural tradition as deeply embedded and fertile as the Classic or Gothic, it does have a number of sincere experimentalists who keep the art from stagnation, who seek the expression of modern contour and character...
Invitations to compete were extended to several men engaged in different sorts of artistry. These included Gustave Jen sen (silversmith), William Zorach (sculptor), Robert Locher (interior decorator), Edward Steichen (photographer), Walter Teague (commercial artist) ; Buk Ulreich (designer...