Word: mural
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Edwin Rowland Blashfield, 79, famed mural painter; to Miss Grace Hall, 58, writer, of Manhattan...
Howard Carter has finished clearing the fourth chamber of King TutankhAmen's tomb near Luxor, Egypt. The results were disappointing. He announced last week that no papyri, mural writing, engravings or paintings were found. A hole had been smashed in the doorway of the fourth chamber and its contents were in confusion, hinting that some ancient thieves had been at work. Be that as it may, Mr. Carter discovered much that would quicken the pulse of any archaeologist: a bed, probably belonging to King Tut's Queen, supported by strange elongated lions bristling with beaten gold; several large...
...converse of the problem has been encountered in the Harvard Graduate Schools, where the difficulty has been in finding means to bring the graduate student out of his cubicle. The evil of the paucity of outside interests has been in a measure allayed by such activities as the inter-mural sport leagues and the Graduate Societies of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...have always felt that Toledo is only as great as its industries," explained President Alfred B. Koch in describing the origin of this impressive show. In order suitably to glorify these industries, the department store turned to Art. It scorned half measures, hired Arthur Covey, internationally famed mural painter. Six times he visited Toledo and peered appreciatively at Toledo industry. He went to work, telling the story of Toledo with tubes of paint & with brushes...
...Lower California, in the desolate volcanic waste near Punta Baja, Edward H. Davis of the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), found vast caverns decorated with mural paintings. In one cave the ceiling bristled with arrows shot into it at least 500 years ago. Carved stone vessels and long-walled lanes through the lava floes indicated high culture among the Cochimi, Guaycuru and Pericue Indians whom Spanish travelers reported finding on that lonely coast in the 16th Century. Ethnologist Davis judged that these tribes were gigantic in stature...