Monumental Dreams: The Life and Sculpture of Ann Norton

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Index · 195 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations ; unnumbered color plates are indicated as p1, p2, p3 respectively. Aaron Berman Gallery, 173 Abstract art: Norton on, 121–22. See also American Abstract Artists; specific types of abstract art Accademia Gallery in Florence, 42 Acme Steel Company, 84; Norton resigning from, 111 Agee, James, 61 Aleshire, Mary E., 68, 88; resignation of, 90 American Abstract Artists, 73 Americans 1942, 98 Andersen, Hans Christian, 35 Anderson, Carl Thomas, 34, 35 Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens: Madigan on, 173; officers of, 163; praise for, 171; press release, 163; trustees, 163 Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Foundation (ANSG): fundraising for, 168; money left for, 166–67 Ann Norton: The Unknown Works, 173 ANSG. See Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Foundation Anton Basky Foundry, 75; closing of, 79; instructions to, 76; overcharging, 79 Archipenko, Alexander, 46, 121; assistant for, 39; influence of, 39 Aronow, Claudia, 72 Arp, Jean, 121 Art and Archaeology Scholarship, 37 Art in America in Modern Times (Cahill and Barr), 70 Art Institute of Chicago, 159 Art Students League, 14; signing up at, 34–35 Barcelona Road house, p1 Barr, Alfred H., 70, 97; on Norton, 123 Basky, Anton, 75–76, 79 Battle of Selma, 8 Bearzi, Bruno, 136, 141 Beauty Parlor, 76 Bedi-Rassy Arts Foundry, 79 Béguinage, 53–54 Benson, John, 48 Benson, John Howard, 51, 54–55; on Bethune , 52; working with, 47 Benton, Thomas Hart, 61; dismissal of, 98 Berdeau, LeRoy, 79 Beresford, Richard, 163, 169; in India, 146–47 Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 148; on drawing, 72 Bethune, Ade: appearance of, 48; background of, 47; Benson, J. H., on, 52; career developments of, 50–51; Carey correspondence with, 50–51, 58; Catholicism and, 48; Day on, 48; on debunking art, 66; friendship with, 47–50, 53–58; on Gillis, 62; on Lapsley, 62; last years and, 162; letters from, 53–54, 56, 64; music involvement of, 53; portrait of, 49; as religious leader, 58, 64; on sculpture enlargements, 136–37 196 · Index Betts, Louis, 33 Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama , 29 Birth, 7 Bodley Gallery, 158, 159 Boettcher, Graham, 29 Boochy’s Wings (Weaver, A.): illustrations in, 27; language footnotes, 26; Southern history in, 26–27 Boss, Homer, 35 Brancusi, Constantin, 98, 120; on direct carving, 41; introduction to, 39 Braque, Georges, 39 Brick, 150; monuments, 155–57 Bronston, Cecil, 128, 134 Bronx Post Office in New York, 36 Brunner, Elizabeth, 147 Bruno Bearzi foundry, 136, 141 Bryce Canyon, 134, p12 Buddhism, 161–62 Burchfield, Charles, 61 Burgess, Helen, 66 Butler, Veronica Boswell, 171 Cahawba, Alabama, 1–2, 156; towers, p16 Cahill, Holger, 70 Calder, Alexander, 121 Calhoun, Elizabeth: background of, 84; death of, 102; illness of, 97 Calhoun, John C., 84 Cambridge Arts Council, 160 Campbell, Joseph, 52 Carey, Arthur Graham: background of, 50; Bethune correspondence with, 50–51, 58; traditionalism beliefs of, 52 Carnegie Corporation, 37 The Castle, 10, 11, 11–12 Casualties I (Mother and Child), 75; Norton purchasing, 102 Casualties II, 75 Casualties III (Three Widows), 75 Casualties IV, 75; Norton purchasing, 102 Catholic Art Association, 64 The Catholic Worker, 48; illustrations in, 50–51 Catholic Worker movement, 48 Cézanne, Paul, 120; explaining, 111 Chalice sketches, 44 Chapin, Francis, 98 Charcoal, p4, p8 Charles J. Connick studios, 50 Chase, William Merritt, 14 Chastain, Thomas M., 148, 168 Château de Polignac, 141–42 Chautauqua Institution, 84; Norton resigning from, 119 Chicago Chamber Music Society, 84 Childhood home, 15 Children Pumping Water, 75–76, 78 Children’s books: controversy over, 28–29; dialect in, 24; illustrations, 27–28; subject matter in, 28–29; throwing away, 28–29. See also specific children’s books Chinese bronzes, 120 Chinese jade, 96, 120 Civil rights movement, 153 Civil War, 2, 8, 9, 152 Claudel, Camille, 73 The Clocktower, 160 Cohen, George M., 35 Cole, Thomas, 33 Communism, 61–62 The Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron), 28–29 Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, 134 Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., 66; followers of, 52 Cooper Union Art School, 34, 47; admission to, 35; graduation from, 38–39 Cotter, Holland, 43 Courbet, Gustave, 96, 98 Crocheron, Richard, 2–3 Cubism, 72; Cotter on, 43; Hoffmann on, 43; as push and pull of space and light, 43 Index · 197 Cunningham, Charles C., 159 Curran, Charles C., 33 Curry, John Stuart, 98 Dalai Lama, 164; du Boisrouvray on, 147; visiting, 146–47 Dallas Art League of Selma...