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...have always felt that Toledo is only as great as its industries," explained President Alfred B. Koch in describing the origin of this impressive show. In order suitably to glorify these industries, the department store turned to Art. It scorned half measures, hired Arthur Covey, internationally famed mural painter. Six times he visited Toledo and peered appreciatively at Toledo industry. He went to work, telling the story of Toledo with tubes of paint & with brushes...
...Lower California, in the desolate volcanic waste near Punta Baja, Edward H. Davis of the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), found vast caverns decorated with mural paintings. In one cave the ceiling bristled with arrows shot into it at least 500 years ago. Carved stone vessels and long-walled lanes through the lava floes indicated high culture among the Cochimi, Guaycuru and Pericue Indians whom Spanish travelers reported finding on that lonely coast in the 16th Century. Ethnologist Davis judged that these tribes were gigantic in stature...
...Mount of Olives, not far from where Jesus the Christ ascended to Heaven, there now stands Government House, the residence of the British High Commissioner, an imposing structure built originally asr the Empress Augusta Victoria Hospice (hotel). The British, easygoing, have left unmolested a pair of astonishing mural paintings in the Chapel. One depicts God the Father. The other, directly opposite and much more imposing in composition, was painted to display in trailing Biblical robes of glory The All Highest, Wilhelm...
Last week a huge stone, hurling down from a partly wrecked tower, burst through the Chapel roof, obliterated the blasphemous mural of Wilhelm, and finally became motionless below the unscathed portrait of Jehovah...
...main floor is Guest Hall, rising to a height of two stories and roofed with a beamed ceiling which is itself a sixteenth century work from Dijon. This room, which is finished in rough plaster with a stone floor, will be used principally for the exhibition of tapestries and mural decorations...