[accessibleimage] To Show Art By Blind

To Show Art by Blind

Gallery Will Open Exhibit of Sculpture Tomorrow

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 3, 1941, p. 12

An exhibition of sculpture by blind women of the Lighthouse Recreation
Department of the New York Association for the Blind will be opened to the
public tomorrow at the Carroll Carstairs Gallery, 11 East Fifty-seventh
Street, after a private opening this afternoon. The exhibition, which will
be free, is sponsored by the women's executive committee of the association
and will continue through Feb. 15.

The show comprises twenty plaster casts of sculptured clay. According to
Mrs. Antoinette C. Nash, director of the Women's Recreation Department at
the Lighthouse, complete freedom was given the blind sculptors to create
whatever they chose. No hands other than theirs have touched the clay. The
subjects range from animal figures to abstractions.

An elephant was fashioned from a description by the teacher. The sculptor of
this piece, blind since the age of 9, is now 63 years old. The fifteen
sightless members of the sculpture class range in age from 21 to 71

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