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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...
...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...
...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...