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THE NEWS-SENTINEL, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, MAY 10, 1947

Glorifying Women at work

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With a friend serving as model, Miss Sanford works on a statue of a woman pressing buttermilk out of butter to form it. 

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Dryads and Dresden dolls are conventional subjects for sculpture, but not for Marion Sanford of New York, who sees fundamental beauty in working women and housewives at their daily tasks. Recent winner of a national academy $1,000 award, Miss Sanford believes there's "beauty in movements one makes performing useful chores. I can see character in sticking to a useful job for loved ones until the work is finished." Thus, she has portrayed in metal and clay and stone the immemorial movements of women washing clothes, churning butter, planting seeds and performing other homely tasks. Included in her group of working women is a statue of her friend, Cornelia Chapin, also a sculptor. She, too, works with her hands. - Acme News Photos

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Here her friend poses as a scrubwoman while Miss Sanford strives to capture the movement and feeling of this immemorial form of feminine drudgery.

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A sculptress, too, works with her hands, and here is Miss Sanford's portrait of her friend, Cornelia Chapin, with whom she shares a large studio in New York.

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Above - A former farmgirl herself, the sculptress works mostly from memory in turning out figures such as this woman churning butter.

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