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...University of Kansas City goes Spaniard Luis Quintanilla ... to start the first university school of fresco painting in the U. S." (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

This is a surprise to art students at Louisiana State University, where classes in fresco painting have been going on for five years. These classes are under the able direction of Conrad Albrizio, whose frescos adorn several public buildings in Louisiana and who has executed two frescos in Louisiana and Alabama post offices on commission from the U. S. Section of Fine Arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...University of Kansas City goes Spaniard Luis Quintanilla, able draughtsman and muralist, to start the first university school of fresco painting in the U. S. Artist Quintanilla will have 40 to 50 pupils, who will help him paint, on wet plaster in the Liberal Arts Building Auditorium, a real fresco, possibly of Don Quixote in a modern setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists in Residence | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...show's star performer, famed Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, perched in a rooftop studio, last week went to work on sketches for his big fresco (22 ft. ½ in. by 44 ft. 3 in.) at the north end of the Fine Arts Palace. Commissioned for the new San Francisco Junior College library, the fresco counterposes the old Mexican Indian God Quetzalcoatl against a steel stamping machine (with the same outline, even to breastlike appendage), Mexican pyramids and tropical scenery against U. S. skyscrapers, traditional Mexican serpent against conveyor belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists on Parade | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Wood; dark, volatile Thomas Benton; shy, diminutive, big-eared Raphael Soyer, with the faraway, downhearted look of his old men and nudes; tweedy, sophisticated George Biddle; big, pink-faced Ernest Fiene; aristocratic James Chapin; athletic bachelor Georges Schreiber; big, gruff Portraitist Robert Philipp; dynamic Luis Quintanilla, famed Spanish-refugee fresco painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists in Hollywood | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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