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University Daily Kansan, June 17, 1983
New sculpture to adorn KU art museum
Seventh Decade Garden IX-X, created by Louise Nevelson, was recently acquired by the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art and will be displayed this fall.
An outdoor sculpture acquired by the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art in late May will probably be installed in the fall, the museum's public information director said yesterday.
Carol Shankel, the director, said that the museum was waiting until fall so that the Committee on Art in Public Spaces could decide where to place the sculpture. The sculptor, t
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THE SCULPTURE, Seventh Decade Garden IX-1, is 8 feet tall and is constructed of welded aluminum. It features a welded in Pace Gallery, New York, in 1971.
The sculpture was purchased with funds provided by the Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation, the Helen Foresman Spencer Fund, the Kansas University Endowment Association for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Shankel said that it was the policy of the museum not to reveal the price of works it had acquired. However, Nora Meyer wrote in *The Times* that Relations said that the National Endowment for the Arts had contributed $10,000 toward the purchase of the sculpture.
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Nevelson originally sculptured in wood, marble and terra cotta. When she was nearly 70 she began sculpturing in metal.
NEVELSON'S YEAR of birth is given as either 1899 or 1900. She was born in Kiev, Russia. She immigrated with her family to Rockland, Maine, in 1905. Her work was first public displayed in a group exhibition, entitled *The Rise and Fall*, ranged by the Secession Gallery at the Brooklyn Museum in 1935. Her first one-woman exhibition was at the Nierendorf Gallery in New York in 1941.
Nevelison, whom art critics have called the "Cazarin" of modern sculpture, produced the Seventh Decade Garden series of sculptures by selecting aluminum pieces from cut-out and welding them in flat plates under a project in tent shapes from a core. This gives the aluminum a flowing, graceful effect.
In the prologue to a biography of her by Arnold B. Glimmer, she says, "My work is delicate; it may look strong, but it is delicate."
The KU chapter of Tau Beta Sigma Kappa Psa Psi, a national honorary service organization for bands, will make a bid to have the 1983 national convention of the organization in Chicago, an official of the group said recently.
Donna Wienberg, vice president of the KU chapter, said the chapter will make its bid at the 1983 national motion next month in Lakabo, Texas.
Tau Beta Sigma's convention may be held in town in 1985
CHAPTERS FROM the University of Maryland and Bowling Green University are also contenders, she said.
"The University of Maryland is our stiffest competition because their chapter is 45 years old and ours is only six," she said. "They have a lot more experience."
Wienberg said that KU's chief advantage was Lawrence's central location.
Lawrence businesses would benefit from the 500 to 600 people who would attend the convention, she said.
"Our organization is not well known," she said. "I think it would let the community know that they're not the only one supporting the band."
Campus road renamed after benefactor
The Executive Committee of the KU Endowment Association last Friday renamed Avenue A, the main road through the camp and campus; after after "Tommy" Constant, longtime benefactor of the University and the city of Lawrence.
In 1968, Constant established the Williams Fund, the primary fundraising organization for KU athletics.
Constant bequeathed funds establishing the J.L. Constant Distinguished Professorships Fund in the Schools of Engineering and Architecture, and the J.L. Constant Scholarship Fund, which has provided four-year scholarships for about 150 engineering students since 1975.
Constant was president of Constant Construction Company, which built the Campanile and other KU buildings.
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