Word: muralists
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Flutter of the week in Manhattan was caused by the first exhibition of paintings by famed Muralist Diego Rivera's German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo. Too shy to show her work before, black-browed little Frida has been painting since 1926, when an automobile smashup put her in a plaster cast, "bored as hell...
Died. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, beauteous widow of the late Muralist Gardner Hale, socialite actress who was recently rumored engaged to WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins; after a 16-floor plunge from her apartment; in Manhattan...
...last spring, to Mrs. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, a beauteous Pittsburgh-born glamor girl whose legend starts from a convent and includes a Broadway chorus, luxurious homes in Paris and Southampton, sculp ture, breeding wire-haired dachshunds, life as an artist's wife (the late Gardner Hale, muralist) and the movies...
...members of the board, Mr. Stokes found, did not believe that there were any distinguished painters working for the Government. But as PWAP was replaced by WPA, as the Art Project acquired more & more prestige,-he gradually began to bring the board round. Last year a young WPA muralist named Edward Laning finished an immense mural for the dining room of the Ellis Island immigrant station. Mr. Stokes contemplated its lusty, full-fleshed figures, its skillful gathering of groups, told the board that Edward Laning...
...revising the Guérin catalogue of Gauguin's prints, believes that as Gauguin's rich paintings resemble tapestry, his woodcuts resemble murals. To prove it he made a photographic enlargement of Gauguin's biggest woodcut, dramatized his thesis that Gauguin was a natural muralist who could not find, either in stuffy Parisian houses or South Sea huts, walls to work upon...