lack to the Land' Rush Ixpected to Start A«ain The back-to-the-land movement in the Buffalo area, interrupted by

le war after a flying start during the depression "30s, is due to hit la stride again this year with the expected relaxation of building

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A Contemporary Sculptor

A local real estate agent spe-Lahzing in farm property predict-

a big rush for country homes id building sites by urban dwell-rs the moment ample building bppllea are assured for new con-truction or repairs. lodera Dwellings Wanted

The heaviest demand, he said, is >r country property of one to ten

|cres within a 15 to 20-mile radius Buffalo and with good, modern

rellings on the sites. Such loca-lons are few. he added, explaining >ost of them already have been >ught up and the occupants are sluctant to leave despite the food," price they could get. Thia leaves acreage without

|uildings on which existing build-igs would have to be repaired or therwise renovated. Lloyd E. Curtis, Erie County

|gricultural a g e n t , yesterday famed city residents to investi-late thoroughly before investing leir money in farm or other rural

|roperty. . "If it 's a farm they're in the

larket for.*' he said, "they should Jnow there are two kinds of farms

be had in the Buffalo area— farms and 'poor farms. The

Itter, usually abandoned farms. fere not abandoned without a rea->n, and that reason is not hard to it one's finger on if hel l take the Ime to investigate." food Farms Not Advertised

The really good farms, on which ve operator if he has the know-

how presumably can make a good living, generally are not advertised for sale, according to Curtis, and if and when they do change hands it usually is to some other farmer who has had his eye on the partic­ular place for some time.

"Our advice to the city man de-si r i*r * . zo farming is to take a trial fling at it as a hired man on a farm,'' Curtis said.

Curtis advised against buying poor or abandoned farms, either

—uing purposes or as country homes.

If a city dweller merely wants a home in the country and plans to continue working in the city, there still are many points which he should consider, according to the eoimty agricultural agent. Among the^e a n accessibility to a school, trading center and good roads.

"Erie County with its nearness to industrial employment provides an opportunity to live and raise a family in the country and to con­tinue city employment," Curtis said. He warned, however, that wail* a good job in town and a good home in the country arc both pos­sible and spell security and happi­ness, the prospective buyer should be realistic enough to forsee that if he should lose his job in town, his home in the country will not provide him a living.

Mrs. Francis Towmay of the Lochiel Apts.. Niagara Falls, has gone to Kimberly. Wis., to spend some time with her mother, Mrs, Kranhold.

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Two years ago the Albright Art Gallery added to its permanent collection of sculpture Ahron Ben-Shmuel's Torso of a Young Girl, carved in 1944 in hard green serpentine, a species of stone so-called because of its obscure green color v • • with shades and spots resembling a serpent's skin; a silicate rock.

Ahron Ben-Shmuel was born in New York City January 18, 1903. From the slight amount of infor­mation that is available, the con­clusion is drawn that his father was a taxidermist. Ben-Shmuel speaks of watching his father carve a leopard's head upon which he was going to mount the skin. The younger man became interest­ed and carved, from a model, the head of a fox out of wood. His father praised him, gave him the fox's skin with which to cover it, mounted it and put it on display in the. living room where the neigh­bors duly admired it. Thus Ben-Shmuel acquired his first patron and first public. From that mo­ment "on his interest and skill in sculptoring grew until today he is considered one of the ablest and most thoughtful of contemporary American sculptors. Develops Sixth Sense

His first media were chalk bits picked up from schoolroom trays and stone and slate salvaged from demolition rubble. He developed a sixth sense or, as he puts it, "a muscular thinking-out into moving forms of the complex of impres­sions which the other senses have received."

When it came time for him to go to work he naturally gravitated to apprenticeship to a monumental carver where he worked, learned and earned for three years. While there he also helped sculptors by reproducing their models in stone. In his spare time he studied in museums and was impressed par­ticularly by the works of the prim­itives, the Egyptians. Archaic Greeks and Michelangelo.

Because of the character and strength apparent in his original creations and also because of his remarkable skill in carving directly from the final material he has risen to great heights. He is a member of the National Sculpture Society of New York, the American Soci­ety of Painters, Sculptors & Grav-

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ers, is winner of the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1937 and 1938, is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Smith College Museum of Art as well as the Albright and in many private collections.

Ben-Shmuel in his observations over a period years has drawn some apt conclusions concerning

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sculpture in a general sense and in particular in relation to our own times. He believes good workman­ship to be the basis or foundation of any art. In working directly in the final m«dium the sculptor has an opportunity to use and prove his good crAftsmanship. Modelling, in his mind, can become too eclec­tic. Our cbaotie age cries for » style of its own without benefit of consciousness copying or of tacked-on explanations by means of in­scriptions.

The subtle power of the torso pictured above lies in its simplicity, aesthetic and material. I t can be compared to the Cambodian female torso reviewed in The Courier-Exoress February 22, 1942.

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