ABSTRACT
Saul Baizerman, who was born in Russia in 1889, came to this country in 1910, and died in New York in 1957, was one of the most gifted and powerful artists who ever graced the American art scene. Surveys of modern sculpture pass him by, dwelling instead on large numbers of artists who haven't a fraction of his genius and would never dream of aspiring to the heights that were his natural universe of discourse. His abiding theme was the heroic nude, and his achievement lay in elevating this theme to a high level of sculptural eloquence at a moment in the history of art when the rhetoric of heroic feeling had fallen into disrepute. Baizerman achieved his goals by means of an extraordinary control over his materials–a control that represented both a high order of technique and the exalted vision of experience that required such a technique for its full realization.
