Labels:text | screenshot | art OCR: Sunlight filters through the vast modeling room, casting shadows behind massive lion heads, gargoyles, roman gods and flowered maidens. Figures are brought to life from terra cotta clay, the work of Italian crafts- men. A sense of an otherworldly spirit, a mythical presence, pervades the room. The craftsmen finish some of the clay in earth tones, glaze others in bright yellow, cobalt, metallic silver or lime-green, before shipping them off to grace the newest American buildings, the "cloud-scrapers" of the 1880's, Carnegie Hall, San Francisco's Chronicle Building, Chicago's Wrigley Building and the art deco movie palaces of Los Angeles. Look up as you walk down a sidewalk; the All isolated objects in the goddesses and creatures of burnt earth might be quietly Object Series have a custom pa ...
