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Contrary to popular opinion, Paul Gauguin was not the first crack artist to paint Tahiti. That distinction belongs to the father of U. S. mural painting, John La Farge.* Artist La Farge left a brood of talented, talkative descendants and a mass of pictures, but he lacked color for the general public...
...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 high and Washington feels that Mechau's Dangers of the Mail ''has justified the entire PWA program." While it is merely a sketch and some detail is nice, it does not hold together, the centre is a confusing mass, it has no mural quality...
Special music for the production is being written by Elliott C. Carter, Jr. '30 using Italian folk songs as his theme. Masks and scenery are based on wall paintings from the period when mural art in Rome was most under the influence of the theatre. The stage setting itself is modelled after one familiar to visitors to the Pompeian room of New York City's Metropolitan Museum. The whole production will reproduce as closely as possible the actual atmosphere of the first century...
PWAP was succeeded by three other alphabetical arrangements for the relief of artists. Their main object has been the mural decoration of public buildings completed under the New Deal throughout the land. As part of the vast WPA appropriation, Director Holger Cahill, who was once on the staff of the Newark Museum, got $3,000,000 with which to employ about 5,000 artists, 90% of whom must be on relief rolls, at wages of from $69 to $105 a month. Simultaneously the Treasury Department quietly set up the first permanent Federal art department in the Section of Painting & Sculpture...
...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...