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...that Commissioner of Immigration & Naturalization Rudolph Reimer at Ellis Island had finally approved Artist Laning's designs for murals for the dining hall at New York's immigrant station. Cheered, Muralist Laning and his two assistants, James Rutledge and Albert Soroka, hustled to get his cartoons on tempera and gesso panels as soon as possible...
...years a pupil of Kenneth Hayes Miller, who paints similar subjects, Artist Citron is apparently essaying the well-known Miller technique, with the effect that her paintings paraphrase the work of Satirist Reginald Marsh. Her colors are the same, so is her drawing, so are her thin oils on gesso covered wooden panels...
...bureau drawer. Because of their fluctuating value they appeal to the trading instinct latent in all collectors. But the appreciation of the graphic arts has this difference from the appreciation of painting: a man may have a sound knowledge of Renaissance painting without knowing the difference between tempera and gesso. But a print collector cannot appreciate what he has in his portfolio unless he knows a great deal about the technical processes involved. A finished print is the result of three artistic processes: composition, engraving, printing...
...Artist Marsh has followed the recent revival of interest in mural painting. Paintings shown last week were not on canvas but in tempera on panels coated with gesso. They had an obvious architectural quality. Best were "Swinging Carrousel," a tremendously forceful study of figures whirling on a Coney Island merry-go-round, and "Gaiety Burlesque," an etching of bloated faces leering at a Callipygian beauty on a runway, that was listed in the Institute of Graphic Arts' 50 prints of the year...
With the aid of this panel, the painting was removed entirely from the canvas, a new gesso foundation was applied, and the paint was replaced as it had been. In all, the operation took a year and a half of the most delicate work. The results were amazing to students of painting methods, since the picture today is an admirable example of one of the great Venetian masters, instead of being a total loss...