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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.—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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