Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of Rubenstein's previous works are on the fourth floor of the museum where he completed two murals in 1932. In all his works is reflected his impression of the vigor of mural painting as compared with "dilettante" casel painting...
Proof that Harvard does patronize living artists is furnished in the person of Lewis William Rubenstein '30, winner of the Bacon Art Scholarship in 1930, who is now preparing a mural on the wall beside the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum...
Purporting to be a general view of the process of building, the mural is divided into four sections, each one of which shows a stage in architectural construction...
...writer states that the murals are morally weakening to the student body of that college. A mural, whether it is good or bad, is no more morally weakening to the beholder than is "Gulliver's Travel's" to the reader. No student will be made any more immoral than he already is by looking at a graphic representation of the development of an American civilization, whether it is well done or not. As the writer is representing Harvard--which spends a good deal of its time delving into local college history and perpetuating local tradition,--he is certainly...
Still more painful is another aspect of the Dartmouth murals. The recklessness that allowed that college to sink valuable money in the satisfaction of a whim when endowment funds are sharing the pinch of the times is born of a short-sighted policy, to say the least. It probably never occured to university officials that perhaps they would some day want to tear down the library to make way for a large power house or laundry, and what would then become of the money spent in patronizing Orozco. Can anyone say that a mural depicting the growth of a distinctive...