Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell: "The mural is to a very large extent drearily static . . . intensified by the washed-out color, dryly and scratchily applied. ... As a critic and man of letters Walter Pach rises brilliantly, clear of the defects that mar his work as an artist...
...demonstration of interest and its proficiency in intra-mural sports, Lowell House will be awarded the new Percy S. Straus Trophy. Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of intramural athletics, will make the award to Andrew G. Webster '37, the athletic manager for the house at a House dinner to be given soon...
...cable from London last week made Chicagoans belatedly aware of a new work of art right in their midst. Newshawks shouldered their cameras and hurried out to the Glencoe home of James M. R. Glaser of Rosenbaum Bros, (grain brokers).* In his private bar was a large mural panel entitled The History of Bootlegging. In vaguely Riveraesque manner it showed the familiar figure of Al Capone with a blowsy blonde on the arm of his chair, five scowling henchmen, machine gunners, trucks, planes, motor boats, and the silhouetted figures of couples dancing in a speakeasy (see cut). It had been...
...most expensive exhibit in the show was a set of eight elaborate mural panels by one Orencio Miras Lopez called Licanthropy or Aguelarre Babilonico. It showed Lenin in a red shirt, skulls, gas masks, blood, bones, machine guns, cannon, sunsets, and the tomb of Karl Marx. Artist Lopez made headlines by asking...
Diego Rivera was busy at the Federal Capital finishing a paraphrase of his fresco which the Rockefellers ordered out of Manhattan's Radio City (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Muralist Orozco was tied up with a ''proletarian mural" for Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. Painters Pablo O'Higgins and David Alfaro Siqueiros persuaded the Michoacan University trustees to give this great opportunity to two young men one of whom had helped Siqueiros finish a fine fresco in the Workers' Cultural Center in Los Angeles two years before: Reuben Kadish...