Cornelia Runyon - Artforum International
Born 1887, New York.Exhibited at São Paulo Biennial, 1955.One Man Shows at Santa Barbara Museum, 1951; Pasadena Art Museum, 1956.MEETING CORNELIA RUNYON GIVES THE IMPRESSION that she is one of her own sculptures. Her beautiful deeply tanned face is moulded with finesse and strength to express wit and liveliness and something undefinably enduring, eternal as stone. Hers is a beauty sculptured by intelligence and quality. There is a harmony between her appearance, her house in Malibu high above the beach, and her work which looks like part of the sea, the rocks and the sky. It was here that sh...