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BAS-RELIEF WORK
SHOWN AT GALLERY
Display Sponsored by National Sculpture Society Opens at the Architectural League
By EDWARD ALDEN JEWELL
The fourteenth annual exhibition of work in bas-relief sponsored by the National Sculpture Society opened with a preview dinner last evening at the Architectural League, 115 East Fortieth Street. It will be on for ten days. 

Mrs. Adeline Adams, widow of Herbert Adams, sculptor, was guest of honor at the dinner, and to her was presented the first cast of the Herbert Adams Memorial Medal, designed by Thomas G. Lo Medico. The memorial medal, other casts of which will be distributed as time goes on, serves now as official recognition of Mrs. Adams' own outstanding contribution to art, notably in connection with her book, "The Spirit of American Sculpture."

Two prizes also were presented by Donald De Lue, president to participants in the bas-relief exhibition. The Lindsey Morris Memorial Prize of $150 was won by Edmond Amateis for his Gen. George C. Marshall medal, and the Mrs. Louis Bennett Prize of $50 went to Michael Lantz for his small bronze relief entitled "Salome."

Members of the jury of award were Henry Kreis, chairman; Sidney Waugh and Albert W. Wein

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It is not a large exhibition. Although the competition was nationwide, there are only some forty-two items on view. Competing sculptors were restricted in the matter of size (just why isn't clear) to pieces not exceeding 480 square-inches (20 by 24 inches, or the equivalent). Many of the entries are small plaques and medals. 

Bruce Moore was chairman of the jury of selection, companioned by Howard Greenly, Karl Gruppe, Cecil Howard, Burr Miller, Marion Sanford, Mr. Wein, Mr. Lantz and Mr. Do Medico. 

Various media have been used in the word displayed: bronze, copper, repousse, limestone, marble, plaster, wood, etc. Two of the entries submitted by Adolph Block are sketches for reliefs presumably on a larger scale, both designed for Brooklyn restaurants. There are many portraits in the show. Hazel Brill Jackson's three small plaques portray Angelo Zanelli, sculptor, and the painters Augusto Bastianini and Nathaniel Cobb. The portrait of the last-named is especially sensitive. 

Michael Lantz' prize-winning "Salome" departs from precedent, on the thematic side in that a spirited horse constitutes the background. Among the most extremely stylized of the pieces are three symbolizing. "Earth, Air and Water," by Wallace Rosenbaur. Miguel Sopo's "Washer Woman" involves a figure that fits nicely into the allotted space. One of the best of the entries is Beatrice Stone's "Windswept," a figure group, which is done not in low but instead in very high relief. 

Much of the work is thoroughly conventional and academic.