Word: mural
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Johns Hopkins Alfred Shriver bequeathed $650,000 for a lecture hall. Its equipment is to be "the best obtainable in the world," its walls covered with murals painted by "the best available artists." What caused the greatest tongue-wagging in Baltimore since Wallis Warfield bagged a King-Emperor was the stipulation that one mural shall show the famous beauties of Baltimore...
...organization of a Freshman Inter-Dorm Touch Football League, which is to start competition, next week, was announced last night by Adolph W. Samborski '26, director of Intra-mural athletics...
Coaches in the House Football League, as announced this week by Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Intra-mural Athletics, are: Adams, F. C. Cady, Yale; Dunster, Robert Reed, Southern California; Dudley, Bill Waldron, Union College; Kirkland, bernard D. White '32; Leverett, John R. Martin, Rice Institute; Lowell; Tony O'Donnell, Amherst; and Winthrop, Robert Zwebell...
...years ago many U. S. leftwing painters turned away from canvas as being too bourgeois, began to slap murals on every bare space they could find. Five years ago, with WPA's advent, most of them got commissions to paint the walls of post offices, law courts, schools, Army posts, hospitals, customs houses. Occasionally an aroused and enraged citizenry protested on political grounds, sometimes on artistic, but the space continued to get slapped. Last week, with 215 U. S. painters competing, two Chicagoans won the largest mural commission yet awarded by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine...
...Millman went to Mexico, spent his time with Diego Rivera learning mural design and technique. But at St. Louis neither he nor Siporin will use Rivera's jolting colors and jampacked composition. Their frescoes are in the standard historical vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small...