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...front lobby wall of the RCA Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center has worn a false face of white plaster since last spring (TIME, May 22). Behind that mask was a great, bright unfinished fresco by Muralist Diego Rivera. When the visage of Nikolai Lenin unexpectedly blossomed in the centre of the painting, the Rockefellers paid Communist Rivera off with $14,000 due him, covered his work with canvas...
...Rockefeller's experience with Art in the big world was less fortunate. Although he is a trustee of Manhattan's Metropolitan and Modern Art museums, one of his first family duties was to blot off the walls of Rockefeller Center the Communistic murals of Artist Diego Rivera. He doled out prizes to Rockefeller Center workmen. He was tutored in showmanship by Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel. He grappled the problem of populating his father's vast acres of office space with rent-paying tenants. And as an unofficial renting agent, he seemed to be an indisputable success...
...number of historic incidents that Artist Rivera managed to crowd on his hard plaster panels was impressive. To be quickly identified were Dutch settlers purchasing Manhattan at the point of a matchlock; a slave trader lashing a black; the Boston Massacre with Crispus Attucks in the centre; Thomas Paine and the "Rights of Man"; the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson; the Whiskey Rebellion; the Annexation of Texas; gold in California; John Brown arming the slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy...
...Rivera works his way down toward 1933, his panels take on something of the excited quality of newspaper headlines...
...Rivera was expelled from the Communist Party...