Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modernist Sculptor Alexander Archipenko, who excites his following by making his concave surfaces convex and his convex surfaces concave, proposed to erect a great statue of great Jew Moses. Said he: "Ever since the Nazis inaugurated their reign of terror, I have been thinking of a figure that would represent justice. . . . In Moses, I believe we have that figure! He changed the laws of life for the Jews, and through the Jews for humanity! In my figure of Moses, the distressed of all religions may find a reaffirmation of their faith...
...first modern manikins on Fifth Avenue was designed for Saks's veteran Display Director Sidney Ring by the noted sculptor, Alexander Archipenko. There are now several cunning sculptors who make manikins their business: Cora Scovil, Lester Gaba, Jean Spadea (who gives her Bonwit Teller manikins such names as Zombie, Emmie and Eve). Manikins sculptured in wire mesh and covered with sheet music were introduced at Bergdorf Goodman last spring by Buckley & Riley, considered the maddest independents in the business...
Today Cooper Union is less renowned than in Cooper's day, when it produced such illustrious bearer-backers of the world's evils as Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Inventor Michael Pupin, Unionist Samuel Gompers. But 1,800 students in its free art and engineering schools (with day and evening branches), picked from seven times as many applicants, still grub earnestly at their education...
Notable was the comparatively small size of the pieces on exhibit (85 out of 109 under 30 inches high). If the Guild's outdoor exhibition was meant to show Sculpture for the Garden, this was apparently meant to show Sculpture for the Home. Sculptor William Zorach's Youth won a great deal of admiration for its clean-cut and subtle modeling; Robert Cronbach's well-constructed little group Industry, and Warren Wheelock's exuberant figure of Walt Whitman, Salut an Monde (see cut), showed a new ease with planes and masses. Both made art critics wish...
Leonard Crunelle was the sculptor of the monument, made possible through a bequest to the University amounting to over five million dollars from a descendant of the General...