Word: muralled
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...Mural paintings are usually unveiled with only a little more fanfare than attends the effort of a carpenter putting the last lick on the last nail in a wall. But in San Francisco and in Swarthmore, Pa. last week, two new murals were opened to the public in the midst of such community excitement that the paintings themselves were all but lost sight...
...Francisco mural at Fleishhacker Zoo was a big, bright-colored affair done in egg tempera,*portraying the story of Noah and the Ark. The work of Dorothy Puccinelli and Helen Forbes, it showed pretty animals embarking and debarking, a highly stylized Noah. But if the mural was restrained, its dedication was not: school children dressed as animals re-enacted the story of the flood, 2,000 pigeons were released during the ceremony...
...years ago, when the Public Works Administration began to build its biggest, most expensive ($13.500,000), most admirably planned housing project, in the Williamsburg District of Brooklyn (TIME, April 18), Consulting Architect William Lescaze and Burgoyne Diller, head of the Federal Art Project's New York City mural division, decided to try abstract murals in the project's ten recreation rooms, each entrusted to a single artist. By last week, murals were installed in two rooms. Last week, blue-eyed Mr. Diller, harassed but proud, was finally sure enough of WPA's abstract murals to exhibit some...
...read in the Crimson that the verse is to be divided and each couplet placed under the appropriate picture. Now that they have been removed, it is folly not to take advantage of the opportunity to dispose of them quietly. If each couplet is placed under the mural which it describes, the last two lines will be on the left and read first, and the first two on the right and read last, and the total effect will be senseless. If it is felt that the couplets are needed to explain the murals, it might be better to wipe...
...reads the present inscription, now set between two murals by John Singer Sargent. It is to be split into two couplets, the upper one being placed under the right-hand mural, and the lower under the left-hand one. The lines were composed jointly by Sargent and President Lowell...