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...Amsterdam barber, Appel has had a career as turbulent as his paintings. When he did a mural for the canteen in Amsterdam's city hall, some diners threw their lunches at it.' Some years later, when he designed six stained-glass windows for a new church in the town of Zaandam, 300 parishioners refused to contribute to the building fund. In Paris, a city more used to the out-rageous in art, Appel decorated a restaurant in the UNESCO building. And in Britain, Sir Herbert Read solemnly declared that Appel has found the world "Van Gogh was seeking...
Heat and humidity have irremediably damaged Mural at Harkness Commons, a controversial painting by Joan Miro which hung on the west wall of the Graduate Center's cafeteria until several weeks ago. At that time it was surreptitiously removed to Fogg Art Museum...
According to L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice President, the artist himself first observed the deleterious effects which a radiator below the mural had caused. While on a visit to the University several months ago, Miro was shocked to find his masterpiece fast approaching a state of ruin...
University officials, however, have encountered a difficulty which makes dates for completition of the new version indefinite, Wiggins stated. Passage from Spain to the U.S. must be arranged for the understudy whom Miro wishes to erect the ceramic base for the mural...
...Baldwinites were proud to see the photo of the commons of our senior high school in your issue of Sept. 12. We are even more proud that the beautiful mural in the background of the commons was a gift to the school by the artist, George Kanelous...