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Sculpture Society Opens Gallery at Its Headquarters 

Will Show Works by Its Own Members 

The National Sculpture Society has opened a gallery of contemporary sculpture at 250 East 51st Street, its national headquarters. This is the first permanent gallery to be maintained by the Society, the oldest and largest association of professional sculptors in America. 
Founded in 1893, the Society's members have carved such American favorites as the seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., (Daniel Chester French); General Sherman at the southeast entrance to Central Park, (Augustus Saint-Gaudens); the nearby Plaza fountain, (Karl Bitter); the bronze Atlas (Lee Lawrie) and the golden Prometheus (Paul Manship) in Rockefeller Center. J. Q. A. Ward, the Society's first president, did the statue of George Washington outside Federal Hall at 15 Pine Street. 
The new gallery will show sculpture by its members on a rotating basis. The opening show included the works of Agop Agopoff, Donald De Lue, 
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Jean de Marco, Moissaye Marans, Ruth Nickerson, Eleanor Platt, Carl Schmitz, John Terken, Robert Weinman and Nina Winkel. 
It was followed by a Chester Beech memorial exhibit. Mr. Beech, who died in 1956 at the age of 75, was the Society's tenth president, from 1927 to 1928. He designed more United States coins than any other sculptor and was responsible for the "Easter" emblazoned on the warm marble reredos in St. Mark's in the Bouwerie, "Service" and "Message of Peace and War" in the lobby of the American Telephone and Telegraph Building, and the bas-relief of the baby in Presbyterian Medical Center. His marble "Unveiling of Dawn" is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
From April 10 to May 1 the gallery will be closed. At that time the Society's 33rd annual exhibit of sculpture, bas-reliefs and medals will be held at 

Empire City News 
April,1966

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1966. weekly for duration show

What's New in Art 

TODAY 
CESAR BOBIS-Crespi Gallery, 1045 Madison Avenue. Paintings. To March 19. 
LINDA CROSS AND MARK FREEMAN-
East Side Gallery, 307 East 37th Street. Drawings and prints. To March 26. 
MARJORIE EASON AND BRUCE WHITE 
-Crypt Gallery, Columbia University. 
Paintings and sculpture. To April 1. 
ADRIENNE GOMBOS AND ELIAS 
RIVERA-Lincoln Institute Art Gallery, 340 West 58th Street. Paintings and drawings. To April 8. 
KOTTLER GALLERIES, 3 East 65th Street. Group show. To March 19. 
ISAAC LICHTENSTEIN-Atran House Art Center, 25 East 78th Street. Paintings. To March 13. 
NATIONAL ARTS CLUB, 15 Gramercy Park South. Wolfe, Art Club Annual Exhibition. To March 20. 

MONDAY 
CHESTER BEACH-National Sculpture Society Gallery, 250 East 51st Street. To April 1. 
C. RONALD BECHTLE-Panoras Gallery, 62 West 56th Str
March 19. 
JACQUES EITEL-FR
of Contemporary 

Chester Beach Memorial Exhibit 

From March 7th through April 1st, a memorial exhibit of the sculpture of Chester Beach (1881-1956) was held in the new Exhibition Gallery of the National Sculpture Society. Mr. Beach was a past president of the Society. (See Review, Fall 1965). 
When Beach established his studio in New York in 1907, Ward, St. Gaudens and French were the dominating men of our profession, and Adams, Bartlett, Bitter, Barnard and MacMonnies were leading artists. Fraser, McCartan and Weinman were getting known. 
Beach lived and worked for forty five years in a house and studio hallowed by that great man in the history of American sculpture, Thomas Ball. From his son-in-law, William Couper, a well known sculptor of his time, Beach bought the house. 
His work includes: "The Sacred Fire," at the American Academy of Arts and Letters; "Messages of Peace and War," at the American Telephone and Telegraph building; "Fountain of the Waters," on the terrace of the Gallery of Fine Arts in Cleveland, Ohio; portraits of Mrs. Beach, in marble, in the Chicago Art Institute; portraits of Peter Cooper, Asa Gray, Eli Whitney, C. F. B. Morse, and Walt Whitman in the Hall of Fame in New York. 
Nat. Sculpture Review 
Winter, 1965-66

NEW YORKER MAGAZINE 
GOING ON ABOUT TOWN
nut-brown ale are the concomitants. The place is open every night, and there are Sunday matinées, at four-thirty, by the Southampton Dixie, Racing and Clambake Society Jazz Band.

ART
(unless otherwise noted, galleries are open weekdays from around 10 or 11 to between 5 and 6.)

GALLERIES
AFRO, PETER LANYON, AND CESAR MANRIQUE-Paintings; through March 26. (Viviano, 42 E. 57th St. Closed Mondays.)
WILL BARNET - Portraits; through Saturday, March 12. (Grippi & Waddell, 15 E 57th St.)
CHESTER BEACH (1881-1956) - A memorial exhibition of sculptures in marble, ivory, bronze, and terra cotta; through April 1. (National Sculpture Society, 250 E. 51st St. Mondays through Fridays, 10 to 4:30; Saturdays and Sundays, 2 to 6.) 

Weekly for duration