A bronze bust of a Bedouin was carted up to the delivery door of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History last week and installed in the Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall. Visitors, most of whom were trying to get their feet dry, were unaware of the occasion, but it marked the final completion of the largest sculptural commission ever given a woman, possibly the largest commission ever completed by one sculptor anywhere: 101 life-size statues and busts in bronze, depicting, to the best of present anthropological belief, all the races of mankind. They were...
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