Art: New Deal Faces

For months in a small office in the Department of Commerce Building in Washington Sculptor Reuben Nakian has been modeling the heads of New Dealers, chosen for their "plastic value" rather than official importance. Last week he paused long enough to give his opinion of his sitters:

Cordell Hull: "The ascetic type, suggesting a monk of the Middle Ages." Donald Richberg: "A deep thinker." Henry Wallace: "A man of the soil." Hugh Johnson: "The answer to my prayer."

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