Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire but a sort of Roxified Renaissance is the Hotel Senator bar, and Architect Lansburgh had just two weeks to get the work done. Puzzling this problem he called in the fastest-working firm of mural painters he could think of, the Heinsbergen Decorating Co. of Los Angeles, and last week the job was done. Before the startled eyes of Empire Room drinkers appeared two 9-ft. panels, the first known murals on the subject of the Love of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson...
...could continue to live on their small pittance for perhaps another year, they can not do so without losing much of their value to the undergraduates through poorer coaching and fewer opportunities to practise. If these sports were taken off their present inter-collegiate basis and made into intra-mural recreation, then the present budget would be sufficient, although not as large as it should be. No matter what course is adopted, funds are still needed, and must be raised sooner or later...
...formerly considered one of the most individualistic of enterprises, is being made a cooperative one by a government plan being directed by Grant Wood, famed Iowa artist, and carried out by University of Iowa NYA and WPA student workers. The three panels of the Iowa State College mural project will be II feet high and 41 feet long. Every effort is being made to have the murals historically correct in every detail...
...American people," said cautious Director Wood in Hollywood. "It would be professional suicide," continued Mr. Wood, "for a comedian to make a national hero the subject of any joke." †The kneeling figure of a woman much resembling Mrs. Simpson is at the centre of a Department of Justice mural inscribed, "The Sweatshop And Tenement of Yesterday Can Be The Life-Ordered-With-Justice of Tomorrow." A tenement family at a round table is shown in the fresh-fruit-&-after-dinner-coffee stage of the future Life-Ordered-With-Justice. A woman in the right foreground holds a baby...
...removed the calf-faced officer, changed the colors of the flag, changed the features of the composite dictator. Muralist Rivera once had an entire fresco panel by Jean Chariot chopped off a Mexican wall because it did not match his own work on the same building, but when his mural in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center was destroyed two years ago (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934 et ante), he raised such a howl that sympathizers enabled him to repaint it in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. Last week Muralist Rivera was even louder...