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...Elgin, Ill. last week inmates of the State Hospital for the Insane gazed appreciatively at a newly completed 25-ft. mural showing other inmates weaving cloth. It was paid for with $2,000 of Government money, kept 14 WPArtists busy for four months. Their instructions were to use only the softest shades of primary colors, to "avoid all exciting combinations...
...Manhattan the sedate Architectural League last week awarded its annual gold medal for decorative painting to another Federal project, a huge fresco in the Evander Childs High School by square-jawed young James Michael Newell. It was similar in subject to the San Francisco mural but better drawn...
...Department of Justice Building in Washington last week another fresco panel was being finished in the lobby adjoining the Attorney General's office. The work of George Biddle, it boasted the longest title of any Government mural: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. In it are the figures of dozens of faithful minors in the New Deal. The mural's "ideal workman" has the face of Artist Biddle's brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross...
Today there exist the greatest official interest in art, the greatest production of paintings the U. S. has ever known. A century hence students of U. S. art in the early 1930's will probably write in their notebooks two facts: 1) It was largely a mural art; 2) It was a State-inspired art, born of Depression, fostered by the New Deal...
...Hoover Administration (TIME, May 6, 1929). The only one of the new buildings actually completed before March 1933 was the Department of Commerce Building. Almost ready for occupancy at the change of administration was the nearby Department of Agriculture Building. It was equipped with the sort of mural that Congressional committees had been approving for Federal buildings since the British burned the U. S. Capitol: A great rectangle showing a number of buxom ladies swathed in cheesecloth, standing about a wheatfield (TIME, April 2, 1934). Its painter was Gilbert White, a long-haired U. S. expatriate. Young New Dealers...