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...Three-chinned Diego Rivera and one-handed José Clemente Orozco, famed Mexican mural painters, have had years of hot personal differences. Last month Rivera walked into Orozco's studio to ask for a few pointers on fresco technique. Last week, in a lecture to an audience which included Orozco, Rivera called him the greatest living artist in their field...
Dominated by Mexico, the exhibition had about 246 square feet of Muralists Diego Maria Rivera and José Clemente Orozco alone. There were also many small drawings and lithographs by younger, lesser known Mexicans who revealed at least as much imagination and power of draftsmanship as their elder, more celebrated countrymen. With their elders, they shared modern Mexican art's preoccupation with violence and deformity, both inward and outward...
...members of the Harvard faculty, ranging from professors to instructors, are on the teaching staff for the current year. Professors include Raphael Demos, Philosophy; James Ford '04, Social Ethics; Morris B. Lambie, Government; Louis J. A. Mercier, French and Education; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, English Literature; Guillermo Rivera '09, Spanish; Ralph H. Wetmore, Botany; and Payson S. Wild, Government...
...handout of the late Otto H. Kahn. Artist Woodruff returned to the U.S. in 1931 to take his post as art instructor at Atlanta, has remained there ever since. In 1936 he spent a summer studying mural painting in Mexico with Diego Rivera...
...famed for his solemn, racially conscious murals as for his teaching, Woodruff has decorated the walls of several Atlanta schools. His best-known work is a large (6½ by 80 ft.) double set of murals in the newly completed Savery Library at Talladega (Ala.) College. Painted in broad, Rivera-like brush strokes and crowded with writhing figures of whites and Negroes, these murals record two historical subjects associated with the story of the U.S. Negro: 1) the history of the 1839 mutiny on the slave ship Amistad, the subsequent trial of the Negro mutineers in New Haven, Conn...