Word: fresco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Save for the collection of Southwestern and Indian art and 6,000 volumes of Americana given by Mrs. Taylor, the Fine Arts Center as yet has no permanent exhibits. With Artist Boardman Robinson supervising year-round classes in painting, sculpture, murals in true fresco, lithography, drawing, the Center will also seek to co-ordinate the musical and theatrical emanations of "the Boston of the West...
...Manhattan the sedate Architectural League last week awarded its annual gold medal for decorative painting to another Federal project, a huge fresco in the Evander Childs High School by square-jawed young James Michael Newell. It was similar in subject to the San Francisco mural but better drawn...
...Department of Justice Building in Washington last week another fresco panel was being finished in the lobby adjoining the Attorney General's office. The work of George Biddle, it boasted the longest title of any Government mural: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. In it are the figures of dozens of faithful minors in the New Deal. The mural's "ideal workman" has the face of Artist Biddle's brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross...
Among the purchases were: from the Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund a Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...
Three outstanding purchases were made during the year. The first, a commission for a fresco entitled "Structure," was painted in one of the corridors of the Museum by Lewis W. Rubenstein '30. The other two were a drawing by Charles Sheeler, "Feline Felicity," and a "Portrait of Miss Grant," one of the rare works of the father of American art history, William Dunlap...