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The building is classicizing, with its base and capital, at the same time that those patterns on the facade borrow from ironwork by Southern slaves, and the facade’s canted, three-tiered structure derives from West African sculptural traditions.
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Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
Thus by the late 1920s, Brancusi’s classicizing harmonies had influenced sculptors including William Zorach, John Flanagan and Hugo Robus.
—William C. Agee, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
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Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
Thus by the late 1920s, Brancusi’s classicizing harmonies had influenced sculptors including William Zorach, John Flanagan and Hugo Robus.
—William C. Agee, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
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“Classicize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classicize. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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