Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bearded, apple-cheeked old Frank Brangwyn of Ditchling in Sussex is Britain's Grand Old Man of Mural Painting. When he told a newshawk last winter that he had had trouble finding a model for a picture of Eve he was painting, a story blathered across Britain's front pages that Brangwyn had called British women hipless. The streets of Ditchling filled at once with outsize women come to show Brangwyn British hips. Last week Painter Brangwyn, 65, and ill but still full of emphasis, was finishing the fourth of four murals for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center...
When a reporter called last week at Brangwyn's studio, "The Jointure," in Ditchling, Brangwyn said that "painting the Sermon on the Mount without Christ was the greatest puzzle of his career." The reporter remembered that one wall of the RCA Building lobby where Brangwyn's mural will go was blank last week because Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera had refused to paint Nicolai Lenin out of his great panel. The story blathered across Manhattan's front pages that "Rockefeller Center Bars Jesus From Mural." Quietly Architect Hood said, "Whatever Brangwyn does-even if he presents the actual...
...living painter for whom he could do nothing was in the U. S. as a juryman for the Carnegie International Exhibition (in Pittsburgh): Henri Matisse, greatest survivor of the Post-Impressionists.∙ Matisse is famed, rich, old (63). The climax piece of any modern collection would be a mural done especially by Matisse. He had done no decorative figure in action since 1910. His only two murals hang in Moscow. Dr. Barnes asked Matisse whether he wanted the job. Matisse did. In 1930 he went to work in his Nice studio on a big mural...
...goal towards which I have been striving, and I think it will illuminate the whole path along which I have come." His friends rated it his greatest job, demanded a preview in Paris. M. Matisse and Dr. Barnes agreed. Then Matisse, no master of space problems, discovered that his mural was three feet short. On a new canvas he painted it over again the full 45 ft. long. The short one he kept. And last month Matisse went straight from Nice to Merion chateau without stopping to show the final mural to anybody. No one explained why the exhibition...
...nearly two weeks Matisse stayed in Merion with Dr. Barnes, helped fit his mural to the wall over the three windows that opened on new, green spring in Merion. He admired the pictures by modern Europeans on Dr. Barnes's walls. said nothing of the few U. S. pictures. Last week he went to visit his son Pierre who runs a Manhattan art gallery. Wagging his white British beard, staring out of spectacled grey eyes, he told reporters who wanted his reaction to the Rockefeller-Rivera fight (TIME, May 22), "Art is above politics. . . . No one need look...