The trim little Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass, was fairly bursting with sculptured emotion last week. Some figures wept, some prayed, some chewed their nails. Another sat on a pedestal and seemed to scream.
Even those who thought some of the bronze, wood and marble figures a bit stagy admitted that they were masterfully carved, with an unfailing simplicity of line and form. Ivan Městrović, the man who made them, was there himself to help install the show.
About half the pieces on exhibition had been seen before at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum (TIME, April 14, 1947), which had never before exhibited a one-man...
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