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With Bubert on a scoring spree that netted 23 points, the Gold-coasters finished up in a blaze of glory yesterday afternoon as they ran rings around a Rambler quintet in a 43 to 9 victory and thereby annexed the intra-mural basketball championship...
...enamel and iron are fused, then firing on two more coats of white enamel. On this the artist paints as if it were canvas, using pigments of powdered enamel mixed with a special oil. The panel is then fired a fourth time, producing a highly glazed, virtually indestructible mural. This was never done before because no way had been found of retaining colors through firing with anything but approximate fidelity. Of 13 selected designs and sample panels in this medium displayed in last week's show, two vivid abstractions by Balcolm Greene and Eugene Morley and a panel...
...last autumn round-domed, genial Artist Curry and his English wife were comfortably settled and accepted in Madison. Year ago, in his first public speech, he had pleasantly stirred up the town by pointing out how silly the State Capitol murals looked, a criticism to which the State Assembly stiffly replied: "It is deemed that such mural paintings truly depict and symbolize the history of the State. . . ." He gave a show at the College Union, lectured on art to farm boys in agriculture courses, went on field trips with Dean Chris Christensen of the College. His face-cracking, cherubic grin...
...First off, he was going to Yucatan to see if he could find out anything about the origins of Indian corn. Corn now seems to him the basis of North American civilization. Before he dies he wants to plot out and at least partially complete a vast photographic mural of America, beginning with astronomical photographs of the heavens, indented lower down with mountain ranges, cities, factories, then breaking up into smaller scenes of streets, homes, offices, hospitals, with a winding decoration composed of the tasseled. growing corn...
...nine cities, a record for traveling shows in the U. S. surpassed only by Whistler's Mother (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). In November the all-pervading Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration completed its first two years. Among its accomplishments were a much-publicized renaissance of mural painting, a great work of national scholarship in the Index of American Design,* free art classes for children and adults in about 60 towns and cities, the employment of 5,000 artists. The year was also notable for two great gifts to the public by rich men: the Mellon collection...