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Charles Rudy and Henry Kreis were getting together on a Treasury Department commission of $7,500 each for collaboration on "a harmonious pair of sculptures" for the façade of The Bronx Post Office in New York City. Sculptors Rudy & Kreis were winners in an open competition in which Sculptors Paul Manship, Edward McCartan and Maurice Sterne judged some 400 models.
Many another U. S. sculptor is being kept busy by WPA projects. Interesting among these is Henry Lion's 22-ft. figure of Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, cast for San Pedro, Calif., in cement and marble dust. In San Francisco, working for the Kuomintang, Sculptor Beniamino Bufano is finishing a stainless steel statue of China's onetime President Dr. Sun Yatsen. In Dallas, Texas Centennial visitors saw the work of Sculptors Lawrence Tenney Stevens and Raoul Jean Josset, who with 20 others were hired for the whole exposition job rather than for individual pieces.
Grand old man of U. S. sculpture, 73-year-old George Grey Barnard, was courageously carrying on with the great Rainbow Arch of Peace which he hopes some day to give the U. S. public. Last month vandals broke into the abandoned trolley powerhouse in upper Manhattan which is Sculptor Barnard's studio, wantonly destroyed $17,000 worth of finished figures, left unharmed the full-scale plaster model of the Arch. Said Sculptor Barnard: "I must smile and learn to do better."