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"INFINITE RICHES IN A LITTLE ROOM"

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BEAR CUB, CARVED FROM LIFE IN VOLCANIC ROCK

the Second Grand Prize. Now that she is back in America she intends to continue the principles she learned from Hernandez. She wants to do architectural sculpture, but she wants the change to align her work with the exact form of the edifices she may be called upon to decorate, and to fit her sculptures in with the eccentricities of the lights that shine on buildings through the courtesy of Sol or Edison. (She has a life-side nude in sandstone relief. The figure itself is finished, but the drapes is is about to clasp are still waiting for the finishing touches. Miss Chapin vows she'll not finish it until she sees when and where the relief will be place.)

She has started to work in the New York zoos, but the bars on the cages are a psychological barrier. According to the sculptress, the animals in American zoos are neither happy nor relaxed, and those are barriers to the artist who strike for fundamentals. "The stone in which I carve," she says, "is icy cold. Yet the reality of art is to transform into warmth the image carved direct from life."

-SIDNEY CARROLL

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