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"THE CITY and THE PEOPLE"

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Sculpture
by
SAUL BAIZERMAN

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"A unique collection of hammered bronze statuettes"

last exhibit Dorothy Paris '33. Has pieces now at municipal.

Baizerman .. is destined to hold a very high rank among contemporary sculptors...he has a wonderful group called THE WORKERS.
London Calling ..

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.. rich and varied experience of life .. has inspired a truly remarkable set of small bronze figures .. all subtle impressions, eloquently suggestive of character by pose and figure. TWO MEN LIFTING have a vigour and intensity of feeling for action which recall Daumier .. SLEEPING GIRL wholly winning in its sensitive simplicity and sweetness.
Frank Rutter in the London "Times", 1924

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.. the most striking character in his work is a sense of metal, comparatively rare in sculpture since the Chinese...
London "Times", July 1924

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.. his statuettes spoke of his intimacy with the grim side of life. The most remarkable was a bronze, symbolic of New York ..
Daily Graphic, London, England, 1924

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Baizerman's most interesting work is THE CITY (The Vision of New York). The whole building-up of this jumble of skyscrapers and fragments of machinery, full of surprises and pleasantly broken rhythms ..
Observer, London, England, 1924

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The heaviest statue in the Salon des Independants is the great impression of a MAN WITH SHOVEL.
Paris "Times", France, 1926

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One realizes the quality of his work easily, and, also, its suitability in design and conception for large scale ... a fine unity and organic harmony are felt in his work. The power of these small pieces and the feeling they produce of mass are remarkable; the lines are not only flowing but vigorous... the artist goes over the figure after its casting with the chisel so that the finished surfaces have richness and delicate modulations.
Margaret Breuning in N.Y. Evening Post, 1933

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There is an undercurrent of feeling in them, a robust sense of sculptural problem..in ITALIAN WOMAN, MAN WITH WHEELBARROW and ROAD BUILDER'S HORSE the results are convincingly suggestive of the true character of their subjects.
Carlyle Burrows in N.Y. Herald Tribune, 1933

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In spite of the diminutive form they reveal an intensity of feeling and a large simplicity of handling that are impressive. The artists builds up his form in flat planes and facets that give the figure a massiveness out of all proportion to their size. A more suave treatment marks the KNEELING BOY and the two torsos of a boy and a girl.
The New York Sun, 1933

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So fundamental is his sculpture that it stirs one to deep realization of beauty and vitality. In each figure of his Labor Group is a concentration of power that makes it a symbol of millions of workers—digging, lifting, building, suffering—patiently toiling through life.
Edwina Spencer, New York, 1933.

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.. like figures of a new world .. each one seemed a like a monument in itself. They stirred sensations of great depth and variety. They certainly suggested the
strength and force of labor.
K. Mimes in WHO is WHO, 1934

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Saul Baizerman's small bronze figures of workers
have a remarkable sense of monumental design and
massive strength for all their diminutive proportions.
One always feels that they could be enlarged to an
nth degree and retain their valance of mass and fine
sense of scale.
N. Y. Post, April, 1935

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Baizerman is by way of becoming one of America's
finest sculptors.
Emily Genauer in N. Y. World-Telegram, 1935.

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. . I want to express the essence of man--his sorrow
and joy, the work which has become a part of him.
He grows before my eyes into a monumental figure.
Surely it is not his face nor the wrinkles in his
clothes which make him that to me . .
Saul Baizerman.
1. THE CITY

2. MAN WITH SHOVEL

3. THE DIGGER

4. BARREL ROLLER

5. TWO MEN LIFTING

6. ASPHALT PAVER

7. THE THIN SHARPENER

8. RABBI

9. WHEELBARROW MAN

10. CRIPPLED SHARPENER

11. OLD WOMAN

12. UNEMPLOYED

13. ROLLER SKATER

14. DRUNK SAILOR

15. PUSHCART WOMAN

16. ORGGAN GRINDER

17. ITALIAN WOMAN

18. KNIFE GRINDER

19. CEMENT MAN

20. ROAD BUILDER'S HORSE

21. BOY'S TORSO

22. SLEEPING GIRL

23. LADY OF LEISURE

24. DANCER

25. LABORER'S WIFE

26. LAUGHING BOY

27. DANCING GIRL

28. KNEELING BOY

29. GIRL'S TORSO.

Transcription Notes:
The note at the bottom of the page, If whoever wrote this was a fan of Dorothy Paris the timeline would make sense that there would be "pieces now at municipal" at the last exhibit