Word: muralists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
Baldish, roly-poly Federico Cantú, once an apprentice of Muralist Rivera, filled 57th Street's Guy Mayer Gallery more conventionally, with cactus, horses, ban-doleered soldiers and bedraggled peons. Best painting: a tropically rank portrait of Mexican Singer Aurelia Colomo (see cut), who carols tropically in the bar of Manhattan's Hotel Weylin...
...organization has supplied a dozen artists in residence, with an average $1,500 for their keep, to colleges which it prefers to be smallish, inland. The lot which Carnegie doled out this year includes: one slightly shopworn illustrator, John Held Jr., to the University of Georgia; one up-&-coming muralist, Philip Evergood, to Kalamazoo College. A crack portraitist, Robert Philipp, goes to the University of Illinois on a $4,000 Rotating Professorship succeeding Dale Nichols (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939). The Foundation turned down Pennsylvania State College when they asked for a grant to keep Henry Varnum Poor around after...
...University of Kansas City goes Spaniard Luis Quintanilla, able draughtsman and muralist, to start the first university school of fresco painting in the U. S. Artist Quintanilla will have 40 to 50 pupils, who will help him paint, on wet plaster in the Liberal Arts Building Auditorium, a real fresco, possibly of Don Quixote in a modern setting...