Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfume bottles "according to the laws of dynamic symmetry," and a number of paintings in oil. Critics were most interested in the exhibit from Yale. Prominent on the faculty of the Yale Department of Fine Arts is kinetic Eugene Francis Savage, Leffingwell Professor of Painting. Professor Savage is a mural painter with most distinctive style. He designs strapping, greenish-white nudes with a great many muscles, posed in theatrical attitudes against classical landscapes. In this manner he has decorated the Elks National Memorial in Chicago and other buildings. Noticeable is the fact that most of his pupils draw and paint...
Announcement was made yesterday of the fifteen ruggers who are to compose the University rugby team in the game against Princeton tomorrow. The selections were based on the showing made by the men both in the intra-mural matches and in the contest with the Philadelphia Marines last week...
...past, for there are many who feel that the loss of their vacation is not compensated for by the gain in experience. As a matter of fact in some cases a week's break in training is beneficial rather than harmful. In addition, with the coming of intra-mural athletics the stress on varsity activity will probably be greatly lessened and the spring trip and vacation practice at home may both succumb to lack of interest...
...revulsion to shake hands with or touch strangers. As an artist he had a magnificent sense of composition, easily held his own in a generation of great draughtsmen: Sargent, Homer, Pennell, Abbey. Critics rate him among his contemporaries somewhere between Edwin Blashfield and John Singer Sargent. Like theirs, his mural paintings were always in the Grand Manner, highly symbolical...
...large number of dowagers crowded into the ancient elevator of New York's Wildenstein Galleries last week to ride up to a most extraordinary family exhibi-tion-the work of the talented La Farges, children and grandchildren of the late great John La Farge, mural painter, designer of stained glass windows. Many a U. S. family boasts greater painters, few can claim such a diffusion of talent as the clan La Farge...