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Murphy had a dual career as an employee of the Boston post office and as an artist's model. John Singer Sargent, the painter and muralist, spotted him at a YMCA calisthenics class and hired him as a model...
...Glarner, 73, Swiss-born artist whose "relational painting" derived from the style of Piet Mondrian; of a stroke; in Locarno, Switzerland. A disciple of Mondrian in Paris during the '20s, Glarner moved to the U.S. in 1936 and set about developing his own identity as a painter and muralist. Though he retained the stark primary colors used by his mentor, Glarner skewed the Mondrian rectangles in an attempt to make his work seem less static. He spent three decades in the U.S., then returned to Switzerland six years ago after being critically injured on the liner Michelangelo during...
Died. Henry Varnum Poor, 82, muralist, ceramist, painter, architect and art teacher; of a heart attack; in New City, N.Y. Known first for his pottery, Poor in the mid-1930s took his brush to Washington, D.C., where he executed twelve panels for the Department of Justice building and a heroic mural entitled Conservation of American Wildlife for the Department of the Interior building. Before long he had developed such a following that in 1939, when Pennsylvania State College commissioned him to paint a 275-sq.-ft. fresco of Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act, the contract stipulated that the public...
...American graphic art, to "some of the comic strips I used to really love-Mutt and Jeff, and Krazy Kat." But the idiom is overloaded to the edge of portentousness. It is as if Guston flipped back to the late '30s, when he was a WPA muralist -those remote days when it was still believed that political comment could give art relevance...
Porter painted more than 150 houses in more than 75 New England towns during his 20 years as a muralist and, as in the case of his portraits, rarely signed his work. One day in 1940, Jean Lipman, editor of Art in America, noticed Porter's signature and date on a mural. She followed up the clue, studied his style, slowly identified his other works, and eventually pieced his lifetime together in her book, Rufus Porter, Yankee Pioneer...