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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...
...halfcocked, the facts slowly emerged. Last November Todd, Robertson, Todd, building & renting managers of Rockefeller Center, planned the RCA Building's lobby as a liberal museum. They selected the social-technical theme, "New Frontiers." to be executed by three foreign muralists, Spanish Jose Maria Sert, British Frank Brangwyn and Mexican Diego Rivera. To Rivera was assigned the subject, "Man at the cross-roads looking with uncertainty but hope for a new solution." Last November, at the depression's low, the U. S. was pessimistic; capitalists pondered Communists, wondered whether Revolution was a possibility. To Rivera's hiring...