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...sketches were enthusiastically approved by Harry M. Durning, Collector of Customs for the Port of New York, but brakes recently applied on some forms of Federal expenditure stalled the project. Last week a compromise was effected. Artist Marsh, insisting that he was "keen as hell" to get his mural up at almost any price had himself enrolled as an Assistant Clerk in the Treasury Department's Procurement Division, salary 90? an hour, $1,560 a year, to paint his picture. Under him will be six assistants, listed as "artists" and drawing $1.60 an hour for a 15-hour week...
...been the world's No. 1 patron of painting. Federal art lovers may or may not be right in thinking that this patronage will be the most fruitful since the Medicis, but in one respect at least it has encouraged a Renaissance. This is in the field of mural painting...
Decorated by Italians of diluted talent or by conscientious U. S. beautifiers, the walls and domes of many a courthouse, library and State Capitol still witness the sad state of mural art during the late igth Century. Strongest and soundest murals of the period were done in 1876 by Henry Adams' friend John La Farge for Trinity Church in Boston, and later for Manhattan's Church of the Ascension. But La Farge worked in the European tradition, had little influence on his best successors...
...until the generation of Curry, Wood and Benton had done likewise in the farm and cattle country. The possibility of integrating this material in wall designs was driven home by Mexico's two great muralists, Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. Missouri's Benton completed his first murals in Manhattan's New School for Social Research in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931) and a movement of great and wild vitality was in full swing. By the time Orozco finished his famed, furious panels in Dartmouth's unoffending library in 1934, hundreds of young painters were trying...
...Organized in 1934, the Treasury Department's Division of Painting & Sculpture has kept up spirited competition between U. S. muralists for the walls of Washington's huge departmental buildings. For artists on relief, WPA's astute Art Director Holger Cahill nas found some 500 mural jobs employing more than 1,000 painters. Both Federal agencies are haopy about the results, but the pride of me Treasury is in mural painting alone and in such newly-discovered talents as Frank Mechau, of Colorado, whose Dangers of the Mail was chosen last year for the new Post Office Department...