MCLEAN MAN UNVEILS STATUE CROWE CROWS OVER CROW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300050030-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: July 20, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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McLean
Zan' Unveils Statue
Crowe Grows Over Crow
By Dorothy McCardle
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terior Stewart Udall and_
Walt Rostow, Deputy S#e-
dial Assistant to President
Kennedy, took time out
from national affairs last
Sautrday night to attend the
uiwM'Irn of5,av unique work
of art in McLean, Va. `
Ari" Yi-foot Indiana lime-
stone, four-dimensional ab-
stract figure of a bird was
the center of attention at
one of the most beautiful
outdoor dinner parties ever
given in McLean. The bird
was a stylization of a crow.
some forty
guests was H.
Crowe, form, riy .with tie
Ce raT TntelIgmaee.,, go cy.
ests were seated at
t,
small tables on a series of
terraces sloping dawn to the-
ery 'edge of the Potomac
iver. Huge floodlights, lo-
ated in the upper branches
f a series of very tall trees,
earned their light upon the
uest of honor-the lime-
tone crow, based in a inar-
le pediment.
Andre Gaunoux, whose
cu1ptor's studio .is in
eorgetown, was taking a
ow, too, as the artist. He
.aid that he had created the
our-eyed, four-faced bird
fter studying the natural
etting and the surround-
ng trees, matching their tall
nd simple lines.
The 29-year-old sculptor
as made something of a
eputation for himself since
oming to Washington six
cars ago from Indo-China
there he had been a meni-
ber of the French Com-
mando Corps.
He has exhibited here at
the Corcoran Gallery and
has done a portrait in stone
of the wife of the French
Ambassador, Madame Herve
Alphand.
His father was a French
wine grower "with a feeling
for stone." This love of the
texture of stone was In-,
herited by the son. Young ,
Gaunoux took a degree in
chemistry at the University
of Dijon, expecting to go
into his father's wine busi-
ness. Instead, he sidestepped
the grape vines in favor of
sculpture.
Dick Crowe's new stone
crow weighs two tons and
is dramatic and somewhat
astonishing from every angle
it is viewed. The Udall home.
is next door to the Crowe
estate in McLean.
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