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Brought
from
Rome
to the
United
States
at
the age
of three,
Beniamino
Bufano
became
one of the
most important
sculptors
of our time.
He would be
commissioned
to create
sculptures
for the Panama
Pacific
International
Exposition
for the
completion
of the San
Francisco
Bay Bridge
in 1939
and
would
design the
Indian
portrait
on the U.
S. Indian
Head
nickel.
Eventually
he would
find himself
in Gandhi's
ashram,
the place
of retreat,
where
they conversed
and exchanged
opinions.
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In
Bufano's
last year,
from the
summer of
1969 through
August
1970,
Bufano's
and
Mulleian's
paths
would merge,
starting
with a featured
exhibit
of both
of
their works
at the Continental
Art Gallery
in San Francisco,
and later, in January
1970 at the
Frank Gallery,
(the venue
managed
and operated
by author
Leonard
Roy Frank).
Bufano and
Mulleian
had become
very good
friends in
a mutual
admiration
for each other's
art.
Their
respect for
each other
was of the
highest
order.
There would
be many discussions
between Bufano,
Mulleian
and Frank over dinner
out on the
town.
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Benny
Bufano at his S.F. Studio in 1970
