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...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...
This week, at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Manhattan, critics inspected the work of a young man from Baltimore who seemed to be getting warm. Mervin Jules, 25, does not yet wear the mantle of Daumier (see col. 3), but among his 20 tempera paintings and score of gouaches (opaque water colors) there were several which allowed spectators not only to see poverty but to see into it. Several others showed a spirit and skill at caricature which located Jules below but in line with Rivera, Orozco, Grosz and other effective satirists of social horrors...
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...