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THE ART NEWS

Free and Forbidden Sculpture in the D. C.

Among the group who have recently been associated with the newly formed Sculptors Guild are Jean de Marco, Hugo Robus, Helene Sardeau and Herbert Ferber. Chaim Gross contributes a lignum vitae Balancing and Offspring in American mahogany. Slobodkin a lively Sailor's Music and Concetta Scaravaglione a harmonious limestone Figure.
Jo Davidson's brilliant characterization of Einstein animates the school of naturalistic portraiture. In a more subjective vein is Noguchi's subtly rounded terracotta Head of my Uncle, which in turn contrasts with Sterne's dynamic projection of the character of a bomb thrower. Other important heads by European masters are a detail from Lehmbruck's Thinking Girl, lent by Buchholz Gallery, and Despiau's Portrait of Mrs. Edward Bruce. Characteristic of Barlach's brilliantly worked out juxtaposition of line and mass is his bronze The Doubter, typifying the philosophy of post-War Germany.
Purely decorative work has its exponents in Manship, whose Flight of Night is lent by Mrs. James Parmelee, and by Hunt Diederich, whose Fighting Gods, of simplified, almost heraldic design, suggests cut out iron work rather than three dimensional sculpture. Among the small pieces which have attracted attention are three of Baizerman's hammered bronzes from this artist's The City and the People—concise vignettes of social types which have won acclaim not only locally but in London and Paris as well. Animal sculpture has one of its most distinguished exponents in Cornelia Chapin whose Pelican, carved directly in Greek marble, exemplifies her consummate craftmanship combined with compositional unity. Another important animalier working in a more traditional vein is Hazeltine who contributes two small bronzes of a Boar and a Sow. Still another direction, that of ceramic sculpture, is demonstrated by Waylande Gregory, one of the country's first artists in this field. Polished modern versions of Neo-Classicism are by Lovet-Lorski and Wheeler Williams respectively

DEC . 17 1938

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