‘William Zorach (1889-1966) was born in Lithuania & brought to Ohio in 1891, moved to New York City in 1912. An artist who ceased oil painting in 1922, having discovered that sculpture suited him better; he tried to let the stone or wood take its own shape, whether in large public monuments or in smaller works. Zorach took art classes at the Educational Alliance as a child & quit school at the end of the seventh grade to become an apprentice at a lithography firm. From 1905 to 1908 he studied drawing & painting at the Cleveland School of Art, then spent two years at the National Academy of Design in New York. In 1922 he gave up painting for sculpture. Zorach’s stone & wood carvings & his work in plaster & terra cotta are stylistically rooted in Egyptian, Greek, and, to some degree, in primitive art. Highly successful throughout much of his life, Zorach received many commissions, including Spirit of Dance for Radio City Music Hall.’ https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html
#Fortune for #FEBRUARY 1950
‘20th Anniversary Issue’
Relief by William Zorach (1889-1966 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, February 1950.
#FortuneCover #AmericanArt #WilliamZorach #sculpture #sculptors #basrelief #eagle
