Recent Examples on the WebThe 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.—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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