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Magazine of Art 

Around New York 
Sculpture Ascendent 
The resurgence of sculpture has been stressed in the shows of the early season, with the big and arresting exhibitions by members of the Sculptors Guild at the Brooklyn Museum, shows by the French modernist Henri Laurens at Brummer's, by the always decorative and usually impressive de Creeft at Georgette Passedoit's, and the intimate memorial show of work by the late Ernst Barlach, which Curt Valentin devotedly arranged at the Buchholz Gallery. 
Unhampered by such obstacles as were gallantly met and overcome last year in the big outdoor show, the Sculptors Guild exhibition was handsomely installed by Curator Baur in the Brooklyn Museum's special exhibition galleries. The attendance and interest have been most gratifying, both having been furthered by a series of demonstrations in various materials. 
If there are no pieces quite as striking as some on view in last year's show, there is at any rate a higher level and an even greater diversity of work this time. Freak pieces were few. The curious and bewildered gathered in little knots about the de Rivera polished bronze bust and a figure by Hugo Robus. A dispassionate critic might wonder why Maurice Sterne elected to be represented by a 1924 piece in the museum's collection. There were smiles for a Wheelock caricature of a financier with a head suggestion a money bag, and also for Wheelock's apostrophic Walt Whitman which seemed cleverly to catch the spirit of the "Salut au Monde," Eugenie Gershoy's colorful bull-and-matador group had humor. Baizerman's hammered copper figure, Cornelia Chapin's giant granite frog, Hy Freilicher's daring Air Raid, Genevieve Karr Hamlin's rhythmic group called Unison, de Creeft's lovely Semitic Head, and the Head in pink stone by Polygnotis Vagis, all these and others drew a steady stream of appreciative visitors. 

December, 1938