Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fulfillment now is the Federal Art Project's Community Centre program (TIME, Sept. 5). Meanwhile, strict Marxists interpret the social use of art narrowly to mean that art should be an instrument of class struggle, and many Lovers of Labor subjects have appeared. One of these is able Sculptor Max Kalish, represented in the Baltimore show by The Spirit of American Labor (see cut) and seven other pieces. Contrasting such idealization with satirical but penetrating prints such as George Grosz's Workingman's Sunday (see cut) or Peggy Bacon's Help! (see cut), Baltimoreans last week...
Beniamino Bufano is a small, swart, untamable sculptor of 40, whose adventures have included sojourns with China's sainted Sun Yatsen, India's Mahatma Gandhi. For about ten years he has been possessed by the ambition to give San Francisco a colossal statue of its "patron" St. Francis of Assisi, envisioned finally as a 150-ft. figure of glittering stainless steel. His first model for this won the approval of the local WPA, of Archbishop John Joseph Mitty, and, in the end, of the San Francisco art commission. Leading U. S. Franciscans, however, called it a "Mephistophelean monstrosity...
...this, Sculptor Bufano's artistic friends were not slow to remark that a "drool cloth" was something Mr. Pegler needed himself. Sculptor Bufano promptly challenged Pegler to make good on his offer to sculp something better. The horseplay stage of the controversy then began. Old Newshawk Pegler played ball with the boys by posing for photographs in an artist's smock and beret. Sculptor Bufano made a scornful sketch of Sculptor Pegler's statue. Finally completed last week and cast in plaster, Pegler's model was shipped to San Francisco. It was called "Mrs. George Spelvin...
...refining his model of St. Francis. Last week he disclosed it to TIME photographers. Unlike the original model, it showed the saint beardless and smiling, and the bird bath which once was planned for the top of St. Francis' head had been removed. San Franciscans who consider Sculptor Bufano's stainless steel and granite figure of Sun Yat-sen the finest statue in the city (TIME, Nov. 22, 1937) were wondering last week what this symmetrical mass will look like when 156 ft. high (five feet higher than the Statue of Liberty) and mounted...
That Artist Ferren's new, colorful pastels thus differed from the "flat" school of abstract painting is traceable to his training. A pleasant young man with brown hair and a bright orange mustache, John Millard Ferren, 33, started as a sculptor in 1926. He learned plaster casting in a Los Angeles plaster factory, tombstone cutting in San Francisco. As aids to the problems he was trying to work out in stone, he found himself covering sheets of paper with abstract drawings. In 1930 he began to paint, in 1931 worked his way to Paris, where he found a market...