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...became bishop in 1930, he returned there to preach because the congregation could get along with no other man. The present handsome, white-stone building, housing the largest congregation (2,000) in the diocese, contains a stained glass window with the figure of a priest blessing little children, a fresco showing a youth in red pants carrying St. Luke's Church to the Lord. Both hawk-nosed figures are unmistakable likenesses, to the Bishop's quiet satisfaction, of George Craig Stewart...
...from Manhattan for three weeks in Europe, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was asked if she did not regard the domestic labor situation as critical. Sniffed she: "If I did, I would not be leaving." In Washington, meanwhile, Artist George Biddle put finishing touches on his fresco for the new Department of Justice Building called: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. Some 600 feet square, Artist Biddle's didactic mural is filled with the portraits of real people. One of them, a sweatshop seamstress in a smock...
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...