Word: sculptor
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Marisol, the renowned wood sculptor, fashioned the figures on the cover from pinewood and plywood and hand-painted the suit. Marisol also did TIME's Hugh Hefner cover in 1967 and the Nixon-Kissinger Men of the Year cover for 1972. Although she supports feminist causes, Marisol prefers another label. "I'm not a feminist," says she. "I'm an artist...
...INTIMATE WORLD OF ALEXANDER CALDER, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City. A delightful demonstration that for family and friends the sculptor could make practically anything out of anything. Through March...
...INTIMATE WORLD OF ALEXANDER CALDER, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City. A delightful demonstration that for family and friends, the sculptor could make practically anything out of anything. Through March...
...also marks the culmination of a career that never pointed toward children's books in the first place. Van Allsburg, the son of a Grand Rapids dairy owner, set out to be a sculptor after studying at the University of Michigan and the Rhode Island School of Design. But he also sketched continually, and his wife Lisa, then an art teacher, showed some of his drawings to children's book editors. "Everybody else called them odd," he recalls. "I didn't." The editors liked the oddness. In 1979 Van Allsburg made his debut with The Garden of Abdul Gasazi...
...enthusiasm for that work is infectious. In person, she is shy yet affable, serious but quick to smile, and full of energy; she doesn't so much walk as dart. Her private life, centered on a Bowery loft with the sculptor Peter Boynton and a cat named Sam, is something she guards fiercely. Her black hair, which once extended to her waist, has been cut short for quite some time, and her dark eyes draw you to her with their intensity. She dresses simply -- T shirts and sneakers whenever possible -- is self-conscious about her youthful appearance (she turned...