sculptor
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Visitors can trade $5 for a small black sphinx, a replica of sculptor Lee Lawrie’s Belgian black marble and bronze sphinxes that flank the north staircase on the library’s second floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
His collection was a nod to the American sculptor Lynda Benglis and featured accordion-like dresses, skirts and accessories.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
When Saint-Gaudens showed a plaster cast of it at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Auguste Rodin, then the most famous sculptor in Europe, stopped before it, removed his hat and stood in silent tribute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams brushed off criticism, saying that Obama himself was inspired by the chunky works of the modernist Romanian sculptor.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Gebu had hired an indifferent sculptor whose price was cheap, and the result looked nothing like the Thutra Ranofer remembered; but it was all he had.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
For the rest of his life—in contrast to his contemporaries the Color Field painters and industrial-scale sculptors, who required vast studios—he worked in the modest apartment where he kept his own company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
Most sculptors did not carve their own marble copies, but Stebbins insisted on doing so herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Laura Gardin Fraser, the only woman among the monument sculptors here, designed a powerful double-equestrian sculpture of Lee and Jackson for Baltimore, unveiled in 1948.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
By 1970, sculptors Christo and Jeanne-Claude had just wrapped a million square-feet of coastal Australia in tarpaulin lashed with rope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
There were musicians, dramatists, sculptors, dancers, and the practitioners of a hundred other smaller arts, even the lowest art of all: poetry.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
They actually orbit each other, and as R Sculptoris dances in a circle, the wind that blows off from it forms a spiral pattern like a garden sprinkler shooting out water.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2012
About 7° south-east of α is the red and variable star R Sculptoris; variable from 6·2 to 8·8 magnitude, with a period of about 376 days.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
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