Word: temperament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Manhattan's Walker Galleries six new paintings and half-a-dozen drawings by Curry encouraged head-shaking by detractors. The healthy springiness and sweep of the artist's well-known Kansas pictures appeared only in an oil-and-tempera panel of a prancing, black Percheron stallion painted at the Wisconsin stock show a year ago. A landscape View of Madison painted last spring had an unaccustomed air of old-fashioned dewiness. A still life, Spring Flowers, had an even stranger touch of Renoir. For action subjects the artist had apparently confined himself to football games...
This week, at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Manhattan, critics inspected the work of a young man from Baltimore who seemed to be getting warm. Mervin Jules, 25, does not yet wear the mantle of Daumier (see col. 3), but among his 20 tempera paintings and score of gouaches (opaque water colors) there were several which allowed spectators not only to see poverty but to see into it. Several others showed a spirit and skill at caricature which located Jules below but in line with Rivera, Orozco, Grosz and other effective satirists of social horrors...
...well-known style: crowded panels of attenuated muscular figures painted in vibrant and sometimes consciously crude color. His first murals to attract national attention were done for Manhattan's New School for Social Research. He paints on panels of prepared gesso (a wash of thin plaster) in tempera, mixing his dry hand-ground pigments with the yolks of eggs...
...beheld for the first time the final and complete version of Decisive Battles of the World. A 70-ft. mural by T. (for Tom) Loftin Johnson, it was not only the Academy's most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted amid a blaze of banners and military pomp were the great battles of the past and their leaders...
...learn that Commissioner of Immigration & Naturalization Rudolph Reimer at Ellis Island had finally approved Artist Laning's designs for murals for the dining hall at New York's immigrant station. Cheered, Muralist Laning and his two assistants, James Rutledge and Albert Soroka, hustled to get his cartoons on tempera and gesso panels as soon as possible...