Word: mural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the mural paintings I designed and executed for Johns Hopkins University: Your Nov. 26 article is good; it has wit and a certain charm in proving that a work of art can be approached without verbiage. The artist who accepts a commission to paint monumental works for a public building assumes a responsibility not only as a creative artist, but as an interpretive artist, because it is his job to communicate to the best of his ability what the building stands...
...brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley: "I am not a fanciful man, but when I saw those paintings, the whole atmosphere of the room changed. It was as if those pictures were waiting...
...career. Born in Vengurla, India of two distinguished Presbyterian medical missionaries, he lived in the Orient for 15 years before entering Lawrenceville. At Princeton, Goheen studied Classics, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, won the coveted M. Taylor-Pyne Honor prize, played varsity soccer, was president of the Intra-mural Athletic Association, and graduated with highest honors...
Benefactor Shriver's idea of how his early 19th century Georgian brick memorial should be decorated turned out to require the services of half a dozen artists and sculptors. On view last week was the largest item of all: a 640-sq. ft. mural for the main lobby, made up of panels depicting the early faculty of the Medical School, the early faculty of Johns Hopkins, philanthropists of Baltimore, the picture of Shriver's class of 1891 and a deep, cotillion bow from Bachelor Shriver to The Ten Famous Beauties of Baltimore, each shown "at the height...
...paint the mural, involving a total of 120-odd figures, Johns Hopkins commissioned Painter Leon Kroll, 71, famed as "dean of U.S. nude-painters," who labored 2½ years on the task. Unquestioned hit of the series, and for Muralist Kroll ("I like women better than men") a labor of love, are the Baltimore belles. To record them, Kroll started with nude models (see cut), then borrowed or bought authentic turn-of-the-century gowns, used photographs and Baltimorites' recollections to recapture the exact features and coloring of the originals...