Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockefeller says has drawn 1,000 orders, is one of the least expensive: a $75 reproduction in unglazed clay of a Haniwa head, modeled in Japan sometime in the 5th to 7th centuries. Other popular sellers: $750 copies of a pair of andirons designed for Rockefeller by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti in 1939; a $1,250 gold-plated bronze reproduction of a voluptuous female torso from a bronze cast sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. A slow mover is the $7,500 copy of the Rodin nude. Rockefeller, who has been collecting since the 1930s, invested $3.5 million in the project...
Another insightful juxtaposition is that of David Smith's sketches with several pieces of his sculpture. Originally trained as a painter, Smith later concentrated on sculpture. Smith the sculptor, however, never quite lost his painter's orientation. His pieces, as a result, most always retain a reference to a frame and therefore the works do not always function as truly three-dimensional pieces. Such is his "Detroit Queen", an enchanting bronze creature whom Smith composed from auto parts...
...trunks: the vegetable kingdom was there in quantity. Usually these pieces were mock-scientific-prolix classifications of fruit stains or upside-down plants at the Dutch pavilion, or, at the French, Roy Adzak's archaeological pastiche of fruit and vegetables embedded in plaster. In the Finnish pavilion, a sculptor named Olavi Lanu set forth a whole environment called Life in the Finnish Forest-blurred human figures made of earth, live moss, birch bark and other organic material. Granted that these quaint vegetative trolls would have looked better if met by accident in the woods, rather than spotlit...
That resides in her talent, perhaps un rivaled among sculptors of her generation, for creating icons of touch, for making apparent the feelings of the body through sculptural form. She is a completely erotic sculptor. Nearly everything in the flow of her forms, their smoothness, their open disjunctures, their oneiric self-sufficiency, partakes of sexual feeling. It does so without a trace of violence or condescension...
Born in London in 1933, the only child of a painter named Eleanore Lock-speiser, Mary Frank came to New York during World War II. At 17, she married the photographer Robert Frank. Although she had no formal training as a sculptor, she did study drawing in Manhattan during the '50s under Hans Hofmann, the doyen of abstract expressionist teachers. More important for her work, however, was a stint as a dance student with Martha Graham: the sense of significant gesture in Graham's choreography does seem to have affected the movement of Frank's own sculptures. The best...