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...York City last week 30,000 students at Columbia, New York University, Brooklyn College, Barnard, Hunter, many another college and high school observed National Peace Day by quitting their classes to demonstrate against War, Fascism, Big Navies and William Randolph Hearst...
Thirty years ago there were three U. S. sculptors known to every student: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, George Grey Barnard. The Grand Central Art Galleries last week gave the only survivor of the trio, 71-year-old George Grey Barnard, his first one-man show in 20 years. One glance around showed that George Grey Barnard is still one of the great sculptors...
Stocky, barrel-chested. mop-haired Sculptor Barnard worked for 15 years on a project that has caused many of his esthetic friends to wince: a full-scale plaster model of an enormous War memorial arch which is yet to be translated into blue labradorite, embellished with a colored mosaic rainbow, rows of grave crosses in artificial perspective and an elaborate icing of gigantic white marble figures (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930; Nov. 27, 1933). Working like a beaver (his son estimates that he handles nearly 500 pounds of wet clay a day), he has been a recluse since the Armistice. Careful...
...Sculptor Barnard was born in Bellefonte, Pa., started life as a taxidermist. Starving in Paris, he earned the jealous admiration of Auguste Rodin when he was a student in his twenties. With his chisel he has made at various times enormous sums of money. He once estimated that his Lincoln statues brought him over $260,000. Three of his countless pieces give him a secure place in any history of Art: Adam & Eve, now on the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills; the gaunt standing Lincoln intended for Westminster Abbey, now in Manchester, England; the nude reclining Pan, once...
...Morris Moore and Roy Louis Kile, workers at Barnard Free Skin & Cancer Hospital in St. Louis, last week confidently announced that they had proved that a germ one six-thousandth of an inch long causes dandruff...