Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rising (by Caroline North & Earl Blackwell) featured a lady astrologer, suggested that the producers themselves were guided by astrology in putting it on. Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the season, was penny amusing and pound silly. I Know What I Like (by Sculptor Justin Sturm) displayed a huge statue by Columnist Westbrook Pegler which stole the show. It may also have inspired it. "If Peg can do sculpture," Sculptor Sturm perhaps told himself, "I can write a play...
Frail, feminist Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, a sculptor for more than 60 of her 80-odd years, long knew and admired the late great Suffragette Susan B. Anthony. Her statue of Miss Anthony, rising (with fellow Feminists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton) from a sea of Carrara marble, rests in the crypt of the U. S. Capitol-"the first monument of woman to women," states Mrs. Johnson in her Who's Who paragraph, "in any nat. capitol in the world." Fortnight ago Mrs. Johnson faced eviction from her studio-home in Washington. Thereupon she did what Susan Anthony...
...give license to such effective criticism. Last week German invaders in Posen, Poland destroyed a twelve-foot statue of Woodrow Wilson, carved by Gutzon Borglum and presented to the city in 1931 by silver-maned Ignace Jan Paderewski. The critics left this sign on its site: "The American sculptor made the legs too short, the body too long and the head too large. Such an artistic eyesore cannot continue to stand in the city...
Like most children, little Dahlov Zorach scribbled pictures when she was three years old. Unlike most children, she was a sculptor's daughter. Fond Father William Zorach began saving all her work he could lay his hands on, kept on saving it. Result: A unique exhibition last week (at the Young People's Gallery in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art) which showed 19 years of an artist's growth...
...female Missouri, each followed by a lolloping train of Naiads and Tritons, can face each other, in the fountain's splashing centre, they must be set in place, unveiled. Coming to do the first, stocky, soft-voiced Carl Milles, 64, ran smack into an argument about the second. Sculptor Milles, who had refused to fig-leaf his statues, also refused to commit himself on whether the fountain should be unveiled as soon as finished or not until next spring...