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Volume 3, No. 2       NOW IN ITS 76TH YEAR     April, 1966

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 he first permanent gallery to be maintained by the society, the oldest and largest association of professional sculptures 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  Ritter); 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, 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 Lever House, Park Avenue and 54th Street. But in May the gallery will re-open for the public (10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily except weekends and holidays) with another exhibit of members' art.