Word: ibiza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delphic Studios last week, Mary Hoover, the only U. S. muralist ever to graduate from the chorus of Earl Carroll's Vanities, held her first Manhattan show with 28 bright, clear-cut canvases painted during the past two years in the little Balearic island of Ibiza. Her most effective pictures were a portrait of an island bartender, pouring a drink of brandy before a row of gaily labeled bottles; a girl in a striped blouse playing cards; a patient, silver-grey donkey with dejected ears...
...murals finished, Artist Hoover went off to the squids fishermen and olive growers of Ibiza. There she stayed two years, painting all day, playing bridge and drinking local absinthe at night. When she returned to Madrid last October, a revolution was going full blast, the streets were raked with machine-gun fire and the conservatives had locked up her old teacher as a Socialist conspirator, threatened to keep him in jail for 19 years (TIME, Dec. 3). The effect was about the same as if the Republicans should seize the Washington Government, throw Artist Bruce into a cell...