Word: sculpting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood homes. He painted murals of horses and gazelles for William Haines, a mural for Leila Hyams, decorated pianos for Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Lilyan Tashman. He illustrated Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant and an Anthology of Immoral Poems for the Walpole Press. One Sunday, he decided to sculpt. Lacking materials, he fashioned a statue from coat hangers, the hinges of an ironing board, some mud. His ambition is to give California an open-air windowless architecture...
Only two years ago did Mrs. Jessie Duncan Hayden Wiggin feel that she had time to spare to sculpt. Telling few of her friends, she rented a studio in MacDougal Alley behind the Whitney Museum and began to study under Victor Salvatore. She worked hard. Reverie is her first work in marble. Mrs. Wiggin designed it for her garden in Greenwich, Conn...