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...Muralist Boza, painter of The Emancipation of the American Negro, TIME makes exception to its rule of never lending, renting or selling plates.-ED. Sirs: TIME'S excellent color supplement in the March 2 issue not only stopped a back-to-cover reader midway but makes my first letter to any publication a necessity. Granted that making this U. S. art conscious, giving destitute artists a chance and enhancing public buildings is highly commendable, cannot someone with more taste and understanding supervise the process? Too much bad painting is as unfortunate as no painting at all. Good murals come...
...Francisco, at the University of California, two huge frescoes were unveiled fortnight ago in the Medical Center's lecture room. By Muralist Bernard Zakheim, they showed the development of modern medicine, from the ancient purifying brazier to the xray. Not far away San Francisco's best known sculptor, Beniamino Bufano, was putting the finishing touches to a 14-ft. statue of Dr. Sun Yatsen, to be erected in Chinatown. Both statue and murals will be paid for with Federal funds...
Washingtonians give the main credit for the idea of artists' relief to Muralist George Biddle, War veteran, Harvard law graduate. Early in 1933, recalling a former painting expedition in Mexico, he wrote enthusiastically to President Roosevelt of the hundreds of young painters in the U. S. who, with Government cooperation, could produce as vital a school of mural painting as had the young painters of Mexico...
Back in the U. S. she met paunchy Diego Rivera, begged his permission to grind colors, become his assistant. She worked with the Mexican muralist on his Detroit Art Institute fresco before helping him with the fresco fiasco of Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933 et ante). It was Lucienne Bloch, as Rivera's official photographer, who took the only pictures of the completed mural before it was ordered destroyed. A few friends call her Lucienne; a few call her Luce. She hates Lucy, prefers the simple, abrupt "Bloch...
...sooner was Muralist Hideo Noda's cartoon submitted to him than Commissioner Reimer blossomed out as a stickler for artistic detail. The Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor's farm cart seemed to be a full-blooded Percheron stallion. Artist Noda threw up his hands and his job, went back to California...