Word: egleson
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Swarthmore, visitors had almost as much trouble seeing the paintings for the fogs of publicity. Two years ago, bashful James Egleson, then 29, got permission to paint an anti-war mural on the walls of a good-sized lecture room in Swarthmore College. An engineer who turned to painting when his eyes began to fail, studied under Jose Clemente Orozco, Artist-Engineer Egleson kept the lecture room locked while he worked, breeding stories that conservative graduates were trying to have the murals suppressed...
...purples, the mural dramatized the productive and destructive possibilities of science with contrasting machines for war and peace, gears and shells, bombs and books, live workers and dead soldiers. Obviously inspired by Orozco, it differs from the Mexican's work in the technical exactitude with which Engineer Egleson painted factories and machinery, the sobriety of the human figures, wooden in comparison with Orozco's energetic and muscular people...