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While studying under Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, Manhattan Artist Elizabeth Ely de Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made...
Evenings Herrie attended art classes, soon became a favorite with the instructor, a well-known muralist named Sibley, and his oldest daughter Freda. But it was a long time, what with strikes, accidents, job-hunting and the like, before the factories relaxed their hold to let him devote his full time to painting. Subsidized at last by a rich woman, he went to live with the Sibleys, worked as hard at painting as he had in the factories. His first exhibition was a big success...
...space that Muralist Marsh has long itched to fill is the 30-year-old dome of Manhattan's Custom House, as fine a public expanse of plaster as any frescoer could itch for. He prepared a series of eight sketches, showing scenes of a liner (Queen Mary) entering New York Harbor, taking the pilot aboard, warping into her pier, discharging freight...
...waited patiently and 310 artists, many of them nationally prominent, nervously bit their nails. Fortnight ago somebody jogged Secretary Ickes' elbow and the jury's award was approved without comment. The mural contract, a $5,500 job to be completed within a year, went to Manhattan-born Muralist Louis Bouch...
...this done in twelve days, Muralist Erwin Neumann went to work with both hands on the backgrounds. Candelario Rivas worked furiously on the faces, while Chief Muralist Heinsbergen and an assistant named Vsevelot Ulianoss acted as roving centres. The paint was scarcely dry when the hotel received one protest, from Mrs. Jack Merriam, secretary of the Beta Sigma Chapter of the Delphian Society...