Word: panels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wiggins Trade School stepped into the entrance hall, bugged his eyes. Overnight the two upper corners of the panel had been painted in. On the right, flames were licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched...
...Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip to paint the Vanderlip family. Artist Katz started the mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided political subjects. His panels depict, first, the rise of the Toltec culture, based on the tools of peace; next, the Aztec culture, based on the tools of war. The culminating panel, Muralist Katz decided, should represent modern Youth walking between its twin heritages of creation and destruction...
...year Brother Attilio worked on the design, first in clay, then in plaster, for the world's biggest sculptural glass panel, to go over the door of the Italian Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. The panel, 10 ft. by 16 ft., took seven tons of clay, showed one huge figure shoveling. The Piccirillis are not glass workers. The model went to the Corning Glass Works for casting. Corning divided the panel into 45 sections to be joined by transparent cement, used a so-called "poetic" Pyrex glass filled with air bubbles. Last week Corning had finished...
...housed many an impoverished art student, helped found Manhattan's charitable Leonardo da Vinci School of Art where he still teaches. He now has but one protégée, a vivid little 23-year-old named Vivian Lush who helped him work on the Rockefeller Center panel. For her he predicts a great future...
Attilio's first design for the Italian Building's glass panel Mr. Rockefeller thought a shade "too servile." An honest workman, Attilio redesigned it, eliminating two shoveling workmen and putting in the motto in Italian, "Art is Labor, Labor...