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Student Show Of Sculpture Opens Todayby Dan BagottUnfortunately for campus artfans, sculptor Saul Baizerman,who presents an exhibition of thework of his Summer Session stu-derts in 103 Harris hall todaythrough Friday, 9-12 and 1-4, can-no«. display products of his own unique skill at the same time.Although the short New Yorker, who could pass as Arturo Toscanini’s twin brother, has aGctham apartment-studiocrammed to the ceiling with examples of his artistry, he has a transportation problem second to none when it comes to shipping h*s stuff cross-country.Fhotographs reveal that Baizerman specializes in mammoth 8-and 10-foot high figures wrrought from huge sheets of cold-rolled copper. He has been developinghi? art for the past 20 years.There was, however, a two-year peiiod beginning in 1930 when he took a recess from his work after someone mistakenly sold his copper pieces for scrap metal, following a studio fire.Baizerman is little-known for his work due to the fact that he hes placed it on exhibition only a lew times since he came to this country from Russia in 1910.There is, however, little doubt that his neighbors have heard of hirn. In his apartment Baizerman suspends his copper sheets by pulleys from the ceiling and, using a special hammer-stroke he spent 10 years developing, he proceeds to beat out an anvil chorus onboth sides of the metal.The gray-haired sculptor has so’d very few of his works. He tags some of his pieces as high as $50,000 and supports himself ard his wife, a skilled artist in he: own right with jobs such as house painting and designing fur coats.
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Los Angeles Southern California University Summer News
Los Angeles, California, US
Mon, Jul 25, 1949
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