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Last February Jose Clemente Orozco, one-armed peer of Diego Rivera, signed and dated the last of his 15 great frescoes on the walls of Dartmouth's new Baker Library (TIME, Feb. 26). Then Dartmouth settled down to contemplate in awe or anger the largest fresco unit in the U.S. Keynote of Orozco's Epic of American Civilization was Mexican mythology and the second coming of Quetzalcoatl, "the white Messiah of peace and understanding." To depict academic tradition in the U. S., without Quetzalcoatl, Orozco did Gods of the Modern World?robed skeletons watching an unclothed skeleton give birth...
...tiled swimming pool of Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club last week said: "Ladies in the Pool; Please Wear Suits.'' The ladies in the pool were the members of that little band of champion swimmers whose wet faces and shining legs make a semi-annual fresco for newspaper sports-pages. The behavior and the appearance of the group remains the same from season to season; its personnel undergoes minute but steady variations. Helene Madison, who used to paint her fingernails crimson and swim a faster crawl than any of the others, turned professional two years ago. Lenore...
...front lobby wall of the RCA Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center has worn a false face of white plaster since last spring (TIME, May 22). Behind that mask was a great, bright unfinished fresco by Muralist Diego Rivera. When the visage of Nikolai Lenin unexpectedly blossomed in the centre of the painting, the Rockefellers paid Communist Rivera off with $14,000 due him, covered his work with canvas...
Late one night last week workmen wheeled a fleet of wheelbarrows into the RCA Building lobby, set a movable scaffold against the wall. It was no trick to get off the covering coat of cream-colored canvas. But Rivera's mural, like all true fresco, had been painted into a coat of plaster. The workmen tried to get it off in big chunks, save as much as they could. But they claimed later that once broken, the great fresco crumbled into powder which was wheeled out of the lobby to oblivion. Speedily the workmen slapped a fresh coat...
...prefer the physical destruction of the conception in its entirety." One by one, "in spite of any personal feelings individual members may still have," the artists' societies called off their boycott of the Municipal Art Exhibit. Rivera replied that he was ready to paint replicas of the historic fresco wherever there was a wall...