Mrs. Lucile Swan on Way Back to Northern Home Mrs. Lucile Swan, internationally known for interpreting Chinese, life In bronze, has returned to Chin after an' eight months' absence in America and Europe. She is not staying tong in Shanghai but is hurrying to her heme in Peiping to begin work immediately on a statuette group of acrobats.
Mrs, Swan left on Tuesday, Dec. 10, for Peiping where she will open her have at 1.Ta Tien Shul Ching, to get the feel of modelling again after her Jong holiday and then go on to /Tsinanfu where she is to do a bronze Joortrait, Celebrated philosophers, actors, beauties and princes have had her "execute" their portraits in bronze. yet she years ago she was merely tone of ihe many sculptors infesting Greenwich Village and she modelled lonly children's heads and decorative garden pieces. Then, with a friend, she decided to make a world tour, me novelty to her as with her pointe husband, she had wandered from artist colony to. artist colony the world "over. They were to have stopped three weeks in Peiping but her recent trip to visit her "parents Chicago was the first time she had Jeff China since "stopping" there six years Diminutive Statuary Mrs. Swan, from the first has been successful in making her sculpture diminutive. Her largest statue is two fect tall while her smallest is six inches. In making these exquisite miniatures, decorative and full detail. she is catering, she says, toward the modern trend of small apartments and homes, in which a life-size bust is out of place.
Among her mere celebrated "portraits" is a bust of Mrs. Linson Dzau.
Another is a statuette of Dr. Mel Lan-fang. She likes the Chinese serenity of expression and the Founded contours of the Chinese head. Most of all, she says, she likes the Chinese peasant class, from which she draws most of her models.
During her visit in Shanghai Mrs. Swan has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs, Chester Fritz at the Cloisters. Yesterday, Mrs. Fritz gave a, small tifin for Mrs. Swan and among the guests were Mrs. Julius Wadsworth, Mrs, 7. B. Dunn, strs. C.D. Culbert gon, Mrs, Brock Park, and Miss Emily
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