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...Sert, aging Spanish muralist, got $357,893 in the settlement of his late wife's estate-$209,000 of it from Barbara Hutton by way of the late Prince Alexis Mdivani. At Mdivani's death in 1935, trusts established for him the year before by Wife Barbara Hutton went to Roussadara Sert, Mdivani's sister...
...Project pointed proudly last week at one of the few first-rate talents it has dug up: shy, 36-year-old, Moscow-born Muralist Anton Refregier, who won one of the biggest awards ever offered by the Government's Section of Fine Arts...
...Muralist Refregier gets $26,000 for a set of murals to be painted for the walls of a long L-shaped lobby in San Francisco's new Rincon Annex Post Office. His winning designs, chosen in an anonymous competition from among 82 sets of entries, illustrate the history of San Francisco from the Spanish conquest to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. Laid out in 27 dramatic panels, they show Grecoesque padres and armored discoverers, gaunt Indians paddling their canoes on California rivers, horny handed fortyniners grubbing for gold, sharpfeatured industrial workers building the engineering monuments...
...Muralist Refregier expects to spend less than one-third on paint, assistants and other expenses. The San Francisco job will take him three years to complete. Says he: "It's the most important thing in my life...
...artist who painted them is a little, beak-nosed, birdlike Italo-American named Athos Menaboni who lives in Atlanta, where he takes time off from jobs as a muralist to range through the Georgia swamps and forests, hunting birds with a paintbrush. In six years Painter Menaboni has made 250 paintings of 97 native birds, says he has 150 more to do before using up the species Georgia has to offer...