Word: siporin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painters competing, two Chicagoans won the largest mural commission yet awarded by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts: $29,000 for frescoes to decorate the new St. Louis post office. The winners: small, dark, intense Edward Millman and small, dark, less intense Mitchell Siporin, longtime friends, who last collaborated on murals for the Decatur, Ill. post office...
Muralists Millman and Siporin both studied at Chicago's Art Institute, are prime movers in Chicago's Artists' Union. Scholarly Mitch Siporin sings, plays the piano and mandolin. High-strung Eddie Millman relaxes best at the movies. Born on January 1, Millman annually gives a combination New Year's Eve-birthday party famed among Chicago artists, for the rest of the year stays close to the wagon...
...Millman went to Mexico, spent his time with Diego Rivera learning mural design and technique. But at St. Louis neither he nor Siporin will use Rivera's jolting colors and jampacked composition. Their frescoes are in the standard historical vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small...
...Robinson. They are: no nudes, no dives, no social propaganda. Presumably tranquilized by these exclusions, by a living wage of $94 a month and by freedom from any compulsion to be fashionable, such exhibiting artists as Raymond Breinin, Lester Schwartz, William Schwartz, Hester Miller Murray, Joseph Vavak and Mitchell Siporin showed growing talent, intelligence, style. In sculpture the variety was especially striking, from Mary Anderson's crisp Alice in Wonderland (see cut), in which the technique of Magazine Artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker seemed adapted to stone, to Edouard Chassaing's knotty, Gothic Aesculapius (see cut). Most curious planes...
...idea. On newsstands went 41,000 copies of a glossy new 35? magazine named Ringmaster, The World in Caricature. Vol. I, No. 1 offered the writings of John V. A. Weaver, John R. Tunis, Stanley Walker, the drawings of Peggy Bacon, William Cropper, David Low, Mitchell Siporin...