. International studio. s and wonsecond place. He carved it out entirely with hispocket-knife, being unfamiliar with the use ofwood carvers tools. At the annualexhibition of the Minnesota StateArt Society, which has just closed inSt. Paul, Mr. Andersons Evilreceived first award. Since he firstexhibited twenty months ago, has taken a few even-k ing lessons in drawing. Theyconstitute his artistic training. Ben Anderson does his workin the basement of his sistershouse. He is a fast worker, butnot a prolific one. A figure insoft wood he carves in six oreight hours. Once done, he setsit
. International studio. s and wonsecond place. He carved it out entirely with hispocket-knife, being unfamiliar with the use ofwood carvers tools. At the annualexhibition of the Minnesota StateArt Society, which has just closed inSt. Paul, Mr. Andersons Evilreceived first award. Since he firstexhibited twenty months ago, has taken a few even-k ing lessons in drawing. Theyconstitute his artistic training. Ben Anderson does his workin the basement of his sistershouse. He is a fast worker, butnot a prolific one. A figure insoft wood he carves in six oreight hours. Once done, he setsit on his bureau or puts it awayin his trunk. He has never sold,nor tried to sell a thing. He hasvague ideas of their value. Fromthe jaekknife with which heworked up to a few months ago,he has changed to a set of sixcarvers tools. He changes hiswoods continually, feeling forsomething that will express themood of the figure on which heis working. He has carved inpine, bass, cedar, birch, walnutand mahogany. Walnut he calls. three forty JULY I o 2 2 : riAUOriAL the wood ol mystery. It was from walnut thai hecarved his figure Evil, which received the Min-nesota State Art Society award. He has not yetlearned to pick Ins block oi wood with technicalcare and defective spots have sometimes marredthe finished carving. In The Hod Carrier ahappier chance made a black streak in thewood appear like the dripping from the working he blocks out onlj the height, thencommences carving. Working in this informalway occasionally results in his figures not beingwell proportioned or well set on their pedestals,but in general he is remarkablj sure of their plac-ing and of their bulk proportions. To this young sculptors mind, the abilitj tothink in three dimensions must come he figures which he evokes from blocks of woodare seen first in his mind in the round. When hemakes a drawing for one of them it is more in thenature of a memorandum, a means by which theidea is prevented from
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