Word: brangwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche and Somerset Maugham were as exotically escapist as the tales themselves, and his studio became famous for its clutter of authentic props. In 1922 tall, enthusiastic, travel-loving Artist Cornwell went to London to work with Frank Brangwyn, has since incorporated that decorator's style with his own in some of the most splendiferous symbolic murals in the Western Hemisphere-one in the Los Angeles Public Library and one now being finished for the General Motors Building at the World's Fair...
Painter James Daugherty, 48, studied in London under Frank Brangwyn when he was 16 and 17. tried commercial illustrating on his return to the U. S. Of this period he says, "The general idea was that I didn't eat regularly." During the War he got a job painting camouflage in the shipyards at Newport News, Va. For the last ten years he has lived quietly at Weston, Conn., seen his son Charles through the Yale School of Fine Arts. Both he and Kansas' eminent John Steuart Curry, who worked with him on some murals for the Philadelphia...
...City Hall. One of twin classical buildings is the Opera House, opened with great trumpetings three years ago (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). The other is officially known as the Veterans' Building, containing American Legion lodge rooms, trophy and souvenir galleries, an auditorium decorated with eight murals by Frank Brangwyn, offices, rest rooms. High over the veterans' heads on the fourth floor are the 14 galleries of the museum. Beautifully laid out, scientifically lit, all it needs is a permanent collection of pictures. Curator Grace Louise McCann Morley, a native Californian, was able to fill most of her wall...
Bearded, apple-cheeked old Frank Brangwyn of Ditchling in Sussex is Britain's Grand Old Man of Mural Painting. When he told a newshawk last winter that he had had trouble finding a model for a picture of Eve he was painting, a story blathered across Britain's front pages that Brangwyn had called British women hipless. The streets of Ditchling filled at once with outsize women come to show Brangwyn British hips. Last week Painter Brangwyn, 65, and ill but still full of emphasis, was finishing the fourth of four murals for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center...
When a reporter called last week at Brangwyn's studio, "The Jointure," in Ditchling, Brangwyn said that "painting the Sermon on the Mount without Christ was the greatest puzzle of his career." The reporter remembered that one wall of the RCA Building lobby where Brangwyn's mural will go was blank last week because Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera had refused to paint Nicolai Lenin out of his great panel. The story blathered across Manhattan's front pages that "Rockefeller Center Bars Jesus From Mural." Quietly Architect Hood said, "Whatever Brangwyn does-even if he presents the actual...