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Working for the Federal Government, Artist Kroll has spent the entire year on two enormous lunettes representing the Defeat and Triumph of Justice for the Attorney General's new conference room.* They are not yet finished, for Artist Kroll takes his commission seriously, has found mural painting more difficult than he expected. In July and August he went on vacation to his favorite Folly Cove, Cape Ann, Mass., where he has summered since 1930. He set up an easel in the back garden, painted the only canvas he has had time for since starting work on the Department...
...Early photographs of the incomplete Kroll mural created a mild buzz in Washington when it was discovered that the black-gowned jurist lending a helping hand to oppressed workmen was an obvious portrait of Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime Republican Attorney General, good friend of Leon Kroll and one of the Court's steady liberals...
...fame he is not above turning an honest Scottish penny in commercial magazine illustration. Pride of the Illustrated London News last June was Muirhead Bone's four-hour pen & ink sketch of the Queen Mary leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage. Pride of Muirhead Bone are mural-panels by his son Stephen and daughter-in-law Mary, in the Queen Mary's library...
...would not be leaving." In Washington, meanwhile, Artist George Biddle put finishing touches on his fresco for the new Department of Justice Building called: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. Some 600 feet square, Artist Biddle's didactic mural is filled with the portraits of real people. One of them, a sweatshop seamstress in a smock (see cut) has the face of Madam Secretary Perkins...
...think him a shade pink for a warrior? And WHAT is that black face behind Miltiades? It is only because we are very enthusiastic that we would dare offer a suggestion. We see it from a distance as it will mostly be seen. It will be a fine mural. PLEASE get on P's potgut though...