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TOLEDO SUNDAY TIMES, APRIL 20, 1947

Glorifying Housekeeping
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WASHERWOMAN. This figure of a washerwoman is typical of sculptor Marion Sanford's work which seeks to emphasize the beauty in movements one makes performing useful chores. 

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SCULPTOR AT WORK. Marion Sanford, recent winner of a National Academy $1000 award, has portrayed in metal, clay and stone the immemorial movements of women performing homely tasks because she sees fundamental beauty in working women and housewives at their daily tasks. On this page can be seen some of her work.

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CHURNING BUTTER. A former farm girl herself, Miss Sanford sometimes works from memory in turning out such figures as this woman churning butter. 

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