A 21-foot high sculpture, placed in front of the Secretariat Building as a memorial to the late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, was presented to the United Nations at a ceremony here today by Jacob Blaustein, Jewish leader and personal friend of the late Secretary-General, as a gift from Mr. Blaustein who is a former U. S. delegate to the United Nations.
A free form abstraction in bronze, entitled, “Single Form,” it was executed by Barbara Hepworth, of Britain, a friend whose work the late Secretary-General admired. The five-and a-half ton sculpture was accepted by Secretary-General U Thant. Other speakers were Miss Hepworth, Ambassador Sverker of Sweden, and Rene d’ Harnoncourt, director of the New York Museum of Modern Art.
Mr. Blaustein told the gathered audience that the late Secretary-General had often expressed privately a wish that the circle in front of the Secretariat Building would be adorned with an appropriate sculpture and that such a work of art might be most suitably done by Miss Hepworth. The Baltimore Jewish leader decided to fulfill that wish.
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