Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black-coated schoolteachers filled the auditorium of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City for a conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate, Diego Rivera, who yanked a revolver from his hip pocket, pointed it straight at his old companion-in-paint...
...also boasts an extraordinary Mayor named William H. Carter and a large imposing public library. Last week Mayor Carter went into the Santa Monica public library to re-open what in a fortnight has become the gaudiest main reading room on the Pacific Coast and to dedicate the largest mural finished under PWAP. Should a reader's attention wander, he would be instantly confronted by brilliantly colored likenesses of such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John P. Jones, Leo Carrillo, Michelangelo, Confucius, and Viola...
...down on Cape Cod, are proud to have TIME notice our Chatham mural, by Mrs. Wight, but we do wish you might have done a little better by our names. Dr. Worthing is distorted to Northing; and the inimitable Heman Harding, of whom Cape Cod is passionately proud, has to be recognized as Herman. The pictures of Mrs. Harding and Miss Virginia are fine...
With wife and child he lives tidily over an old stable. He has just received a government commission for a mural in Vandalia, Ill.'s post office...
...restaurant singer before he got friends in Omaha to stake him to a year at the Chicago Art Institute. Since then the voluble little intellectual has won three Institute prizes. Unmarried, he lives in a two-room, cluttered studio, sometimes sings in vaudeville, has a government commission for a mural in the Fairfield, Ill. post office...