Art: Life Begins at 70

When Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic was once asked how he spent his spare time, he looked puzzled for a moment, then blurted a characteristic answer. "Work," he said, and turned back to the job at hand. Mestrovic is a sculptor of the old school, and he goes at it with a blazing intensity; he has been known to do as many as nine major works plus a score of minor pieces in a single year. The results of such industry have been so successful that six years ago Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art honored him...

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