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...Department of Justice mural inscribed, "The Sweatshop And Tenement of Yesterday Can Be The Life-Ordered-With-Justice of Tomorrow." A tenement family at a round table is shown in the fresh-fruit-&-after-dinner-coffee stage of the future Life-Ordered-With-Justice. A woman in the right foreground holds a baby in her lap, and toward this with outstretched hands and fingers gropes the kneeling centre-figure of "Mrs. Simpson." *Two telegrams from Mrs. Simpson were delivered to His Majesty in South Wales and after laying down the last of these he ordered a remedy she has previously...
...younger brothers, René and Achille, who were working there in the cotton house. Brother Edgar painted an excellent view of his relatives during office hours, which hung last week in Philadelphia's exhibition. Uncle Michel in his silk hat and frock coat sits in the foreground peering at a sample of cotton. Behind him brother René is sprawled in chair reading a newspaper, while customers finger samples and clerks tot up books. When the picture was painted, Louisiana had a Negro Acting Governor, P. B. Pinchback. The director of the little provincial museum at Pau in Southern...
...local purveyor, who offered a Tercentenary Cocktail to warm the cockles of your heart after the chilling effects of New England rain in the Tercentenary Theatre. But ghosts from distant times were not the only ones to stalk the stage; the contributions of Eliot and Lowell were in the foreground too, and in the growth of Harvard as a university and of the Tutorial System and House Plan in the college they are fittingly remembered...
...Mass., where he has summered since 1930. He set up an easel in the back garden, painted the only canvas he has had time for since starting work on the Department of Justice murals. It showed a dirt road winding down between budding willows to the sea; in the foreground a half-nude workman lies on a sunny rock; one woman kneels beside him while another is climbing up from the fields below (see cut). For models Artist Kroll used a onetime ditchdigger and sculptor's assistant named Jim McClellan, Mrs. Demetrios, wife of Sculptor George Demetrios, a farmer...
Warning the President and his advisers not to be fooled by "funny facts and figures," the Forum printed a Resettlement Administration publicity photograph of parched and cracking soil, a dusty skyline, a steer's skull lying in the foreground. The picture was taken by the RA's able Cameraman Arthur Rothstein and had been widely used by the U. S. Press as a sample of the drought in the Dakotas. Of this "gem among phony pictures," the Fargo Forum declared: "There never was a year that this scene couldn't be produced in North Dakota, even...