Word: muralist
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...urgent telegram, then flew to Mexico City to see for himself. One Californian sent in his $4,000 check for one painting, a leader of Ft. Worth's oiligarchy reserved another four paintings, and U.S. museums hurried to get in bids. Focus of all the excitement: Mexican Muralist and Painter Rufino Tamayo, 56, today hailed in his own land as Mexico's modernist número...
...birthday cake." he recalls, "I always made the same wish-to be an artist." Achieving that wish turned out to be a long haul that took him to the Art Students' League, abroad for a year's painting in Paris, and home again to work with Muralist Anton Refregier and Abstractionist Stuart Davis. Then a summer on Deer Island, off the Maine coast, gave Kienbusch his clue to what he liked to paint best: "The world of many things I love-Maine islands, trees, the sea, fences, gong buoys, churches, roses, mountains...
...Italian-born Sculptor Harry Bertoia, 41, the Craftsmanship Medal, and to Muralist Hildreth Meiere, 63, the Fine Arts Medal, by the American Institute of Architects, meeting in Los Angeles...
Regardless of housing differences, or lack of anything resembling House libraries at Harvard the Dartmouth undergraduate boasts an impressive center of learning in the imposing Baker library. Part of his regard for the academic center dates back to a day in 1932 when Jose Clements Orozco, world famous Mexican muralist pushed through the crowd in the basement of the library and dramatically climbed the scaffolding...
After months of preparations, he was finally ready to begin his series of murals for the library. Prominent visitors, alumni, officials students, and townspeople watched attentively from the long basement study hall. Orozco carefully prepared his colors and began to paint. But the deft strokes of the master muralist began to trickle down the smooth plaster wall. The crowd snickered; Orozco fumed...