A BENEFACTOR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 June 1926, Page 11

A BENEFACTOR

SCULPTOR OF FACE BIASES Hundreds of soldiers whose faces wore disfigured by war wounds will lament the death of Mr Derwent Wood, the famous sculptor, whose face masks enabled many of them to face the world again. The Lancet remarks:—"Many a patient behind one of these masks acquired the old self-respect and self-re-liance, discarding despondency under the feeling that his presence was no longer a source of melancholy to himself nor of sadness to others. ' "So far as inv treatment goes,' the sculptor wrote in •Din- columns, '(he size of the areas affected is negligible. In theory it is as easy to. make a mask for a whole face as for a space an inch square to cover a small palpitating area such as is often duwty in the case of skull wounds. The essentia! of the treatment is the restoration of features; the features may have been originally ugly or beautiful." As they were in life so 1 try to reproduce them, beautiful or Ugly; the one desidrratum is to make them natural. On all hands Derwent Wood was allowed to he one of the finest plastic workers modern art has known."