The Wiggin Carrara

Always on display in the art gallery in Manhattan's Grand Central Station is a selection of fauns, nymphs, Indians and babies holding fish, designed by orthodox sculptors. Another statue went on view there last week. It was a white Carrara marble figure of a nude young woman, seated and gazing reflectively at her left foot. In front of the figure was a black marble reflecting pool, behind it cedar trees and potted plants. Called Reverie, it attracted great attention not only because it was pleasant to the eye but also because its creator, a grandmother, is the wife of Albert Henry Wiggin whose bank (Chase) vies with National City for title of "world's biggest."

Only two years ago did Mrs. Jessie Duncan Hayden Wiggin feel that she had time to spare to sculpt. Telling few of her friends, she rented a studio in MacDougal Alley behind the Whitney Museum and began to study under Victor Salvatore. She worked hard. Reverie is her first work in marble. Mrs. Wiggin designed it for her garden in Greenwich, Conn.

"I really feel that sculpture is my profession," said pleasant Grandmother Wiggin. "It has given me quite a thrill to have really created something."-- Hearst's San Francisco Examiner ("Monarch of the Dailies") last week took notice of that city's cultural life by reporting the completion of a fresco by youthful Artist Victor Arnautoff, onetime pupil of Diego Rivera. On the wall of his studio near the edge of the Telegraph Hill art colony Artist Arnautoff, a sociable fellow, had painted the likenesses of 23 of his friends grouped about the seated figure of a nude female model. The Examiner printed with its story a four-column picture of the fresco. To the great astonishment of Artist Arnautoff and the model, it showed the latter clad in a hand-painted bathing suit.

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