American sculptor from New York who created the 1942 wood relief "Growth," which was installed at the U.S. Post Office in New York.
He studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design.
He won the Rome Prize scholarship to the American Academy in Rome.
His mother Elsa Meher Wein was a portrait painter.
He and Thomas Sowell both attended Brandeis University.
