Word: mervin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best were Millet's Woman with a Rake, lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Monet's Les Déchargeurs de Carbon. The artists ranged from such ununionized souls as Academician Jonas Lie and Merrymaker Doris Lee to Proletarians Joe Jones and Mervin Jules. The subject matter of Labor was conceived generously enough to admit a painting of industrial buildings by Classicist Charles Sheeler. Even more varied was a display of 180 prints and drawings, from the 15th Century to the present, from which visitors could get an idea of how differently Labor looked to Pieter...
...Dedicated "to the peoples of Spain and China," this show was devoted almost exclusively to excoriations in paint of the contemporary conquerors and their technique. Most were better as expressions of hot feeling than as paintings. A few, by Max Weber, Nathanial Dirk, Arnold Blanch, Victor Candell, William Cropper, Mervin Jules, were excellent as both. None equaled a set of etchings by Picasso called Dreams and Lies of Franco, caricaturing El Caudillo as an inhuman, hairy nightmare. Favorite painting of a group of Amalgamated Clothing Workers who showed up at the opening was Two Generations, by Alexander Z. Kruse...
Both sides of the Spanish issue will be represented by undergraduates. Speaking on behalf of the Spanish Government is David E. Feller '38, while defending General France and the Rebels will be Mervin K. Hart...
Said John Sloan four years ago: "Painting . . . has been getting sicker and sicker for over 100 years. The ultra moderns will cure it." Signs of such a cure were evident in devices of composition which Mervin Jules has apparently borrowed from trick photography and the fantastic school, used for his own purposes...
...Mervin Jules was about 18 before he discovered he could draw. His family wanted him to be a cellist and for seven years he studied to be one. Then he got a scholarship to the Maryland Institute of Fine and Practical Arts, supported himself by waiting on customers in his uncle's clothing store. In 1933 Manhattan's Art Students' League gave him a librarian's job which paid for his tuition and he lived on $8.50 a week that winter, while working under Thomas Benton...