Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. famed for his barrel-shaped steel statue of St. Francis (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937), was picked to do the bas-relief. Able, but alternately dreamy, impulsive and opinionated. Sculptor Bufano turned in an acceptable drawing of the frieze, began work on a 30-ft. clay model of one section, niggled, quibbled, haggled, ordered materials only to change his mind after the requisitions had become entangled in WPA red tape. At one time he planned to cut the frieze in stone, get it financed by private sponsors. Last March, because of the delay, the local art project felt...
...prize, is one of the best artists of the Negro race. Sculptor Johnson submitted a drawing to the Board of Education, the San Francisco Art Commission. Both asked for some changes, which he made. Then, at the suggestion of a WPA official who wanted to use up the remaining clay before it spoiled. Sculptor Johnson made a 31-ft. model. It showed thick-limbed athletes diving, throwing javelins, playing golf, leaping hurdles...
Despite Mr. Ronchi, it looked last week as if San Francisco would finally get the big frieze. The Board of Education ap-oroved Sculptor Johnson's drawing. So did the Art Commission, Mr. Ronchi dissenting. As a sop to him, the Commission held up formal approval of the clay models until slight changes should be made...
...started the institution two hundred years ago, is the story of his matrimonial troubles with the sister of his ward, which are finally frond out by Marie Antoinette. Main attractions of the frolicsome show are the clever routines, including a minuet for the famous "lady" chorus, soughs by Clay Poland, author of "Stop! Its's Wonderful"; and the contrast of 1740 costumes and 1940 dialogue...
...Some 500 clay fragments used in voting on names proposed for ostracism, or expulsion from the city. Among the celebrated names on these was that of Aristides, ostracized (according to legend) because the citizens got tired of hearing him called "Aristides the Just...