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...ferreting real estate agent with an eviction notice scaled the highest point on Manhattan, a cliff known to oldsters as God's Thumb, to city directories as Washington Heights, and flushed Sculptor George Grey Barnard into unexpected publicity last week...
...Presbyterian minister, George Grey Barnard was born 67 years ago in Bellefonte, Pa., now famed as the "hell hole" of trans-Appalachian aviation. He spent his early childhood and learned taxidermy in that delight of small-time comedians, Kankakee, Ill. After studying sculpture at the Chicago Art Institute and the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, he first attracted general attention in the U. S. in 1907 by erecting the Great God Pan, at that time the largest single bronze casting in the country, on the campus of Columbia University. In 1919 the entire nation became Barnard-conscious...
Recently the Rockefeller estate decided to offer 56 acres of land including God's Thumb to the city as a public park. Eviction notices were served last week on all residents, including Sculptor Barnard. Reporters, anxious to see what he had been doing for the past ten years, rushed up to interview...
Squat, bristle-haired George Grey Barnard, always dramatic, received them in a studio bursting with sculpture...
What he has been working on for the past decade is a monumental Arch of War and Peace which he expects to erect by himself and at his own expense as his gift to the city. There is nothing niggardly about the Barnard Arch. Critical eyebrows raised slightly to learn that it is to be of blue tombstone granite, 120 ft. high, 60 ft. wide, covered with an intricate icing of nine-foot, white marble figures: nursing mothers, pregnant women, soldiers, supermen. Over the top will go a rainbow of colored mosaic glass...