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Parade of Contemporary American Sculpture

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SCULPTURE from monumental pieces to small figurines comprises the current show at the Arden Galleries, New York, the direction of which has recently been assumed by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Kendall Mussey.  More than a score of well known artists have contributed 45 pieces of portrait, garden, mural, and animal sculpture.

Boris Lovet-Lorski, who is having a one-man show at the Wildenstein Galleries, is represented by a larger-than-life-size marble Venus, rising gracefully nearly to the top of the room.  Carl Milles has sent a cast in iron of his head of Orpheus, the central figure of his fountain now standing in front of the Concert House in Stockholm.  Waylande Gregory exhibits two terra cotta heads of Negro females, one of which, a Blues Singer, represents a new achievement in this artist's unceasing originality of conception.

Anna Hyatt Huntington, one of the best know contemporary animaliers, has sent two playing Greyhounds, lithe creatures whose muscles and bones play a rippling rhythm over the surface.  A study in American Manhood and American Womanhood by Gaetano Cecere in plaster represents the more modern American architectural sculpture.  A huge flat Tortoise in bronze and a smug Resting Pelican in marble are by Cornelia Van A. Chapin, while endearing animals by Heinz Warneke, classic motives by Sidney Waugh, little bronzes of animals by Albert Stewart, all add to the wide range of appeal of the show.  Other artists included with works that are representative are: George W. Blodgett, Nathaniel Choate, Anthony de Francisci, Gleb Derujinsky, Malvina Hoffman, Sylvia Shaw Judson, Harry Kreis, Edward McCartan, Paul Manship, Marion Sanford, Wheeler Williams, and others. 

ART DIGEST. OCT. 15