Word: pleiades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became the nation's first professional sculptor. His Music is a graceful wooden girl who is as pleasing in her mute way as the muse she represents. When it came to women, Rush's 19th century successors were even more gallant than he. John Rogers' Lost Pleiad shows American sculpture at its most blatantly sentimental. Daniel French's Memory is a matronly nude shown brooding about some lost and precious moment, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' golden Diana is as winsome as the larger original that once graced the top of the old Madison Square Garden...
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