Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coal-miner father never did approve of Henry Moore's decision to become a sculptor. Says Moore: "He was worried. He thought he would have to support me." Moore fils did quite nicely, becoming one of the most celebrated sculptors of his century and a man whose works, often large and full of holes, have sold for as much as $260,000. To kick off celebrations for his 80th birthday, London's Tate Gallery last week invited Moore and 80 of his special friends to dinner and proudly showed off a prize acquisition: 36 Moore sculptures donated...
...Washington money man met the New York artist on neutral turf last week-and at least one of them came away entranced. Says Sculptor Louise Nevelson of Federal Reserve Chief G. William Miller: "I found him gracious and good to look at-and that never hurts." The setting was Brown University, where Miller and Nevelson were awarded honorary degrees. During the academic procession, Nevelson, whose sable collar and cuffs peeked out from her academic robe, drew curious glances and cheers from onlookers. "I al ways dress this way," she reassured the crowd. The outfit, explained Nevelson, is just...
...long arms, legs, hands and feet, even for a man of his height. While watching a regiment of Maine lumbermen during the Civil War, the President himself noted: "I don't believe that there is a man in that regiment with longer arms than mine." In 1907 a sculptor working with Lincoln casts observed that "the first phalanx of the middle finger is nearly half an inch longer than that of an ordinary hand." The President sometimes squinted with his left eye. All of these characteristics, according to Schwartz, are typical of Marfan's syndrome. In fact, Lincoln...
George Segal, a noted sculptor, will cast a series of bronzes memorializing four students killed in the 1970 Kent State shootings, Stewart Schar, chairman of the art department at Kent State University, said yesterday...
...prints the words but keeps the manuscript. I kept most of my original drawings. I believe every artist in the world would like to sell only the rights of reproduction. Except for the ones who make giant paintings?they are very happy to get rid of them. And sculptors: there is nothing more tragic than the unsuccessful sculptor, faced constantly by his large, reproachful objects. Comment s 'en d�barrasser!" His recognition is, Steinberg admits, "one of the biggest satisfactions of my life." His way of living is set, and is likely comfortably to remain so. Steinberg divides his time...