Art: Lenz Process

Patient, painstaking Alfred David Lenz dropped dead in the streets of Havana in 1926, of heart failure brought on by malaria and long breathing of acid fumes. "I want to leave my bones where they won't be worried about," he said. "They won't even make good billiard balls." Last week the National Sculpture Society held an important meeting in New York. Entrusted to it for the free use of all sculptors were all the secret methods and formulae by which Alfred Lenz revived a lost art of...

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