Evening star. [volume], November 15, 1936, Page A-10, Image 10

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U. S. ART EXHIBIT
Work Done Under Treasury
Unit to Bs Displayed
at Corcoran.
Murals, easel paintings and sculp
tures created by some 350 artists for
approximately 200 public buildings—
mostly post offices—will be exhibited
under auspices of the Treasury De
partment Art Projects at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. beginning Tuesday and
continuing through December 13.
Officials in charge of the unusual
how assert it will be the first mural
'■vhibition of its scope ever held in
his country. Virtually every school
rf thought in art and every medium
-f expression will be included in the
exhibition.
The artists will be widely represent
-tive of the American field, ranging
:om hitherto "unknowns" on W. P. A.
colls to such outstanding masters as
Leon Kroll, Maurice Sterne. George
Middle, Henry Varnum Poor, Reginald
Marsh, Charles Crimi. Karl Free,
Heinz Wamecke, William Zorach,
Sterling Calder and Sidney Waugh.
“Evolution” of Mural.
The visitor to the show will be
cble to trace the “evolution” of a
mural from the artist's first rough
pencil sketch to the full-size com
pleted work of art. In addition, a
realistic conception of how some of
the murals will appear on the walls
of the Federal buildings for which
they were designed will be obtainable
from architectural models.
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from designs submitted in a Federal
art competition by some 2,000 artists.
They include oil paintings, water col
ors. about 300 preliminary sketches,
life drawings, sculpture in stone, plas
ter and metal, wood carvings, frescoes
and novel murals on linoleum.
The majority of the work was done
by young artists of whom little or
nothing was known prior to the com
petition. A complete cross-section of
work done during the past two years
under the Treasury's art program will
be represented.
A number of the artists were "on
relief’ when they competed for the
opportunity of decorating the Govern
ment's postal stations, hospitals and
other structures. Others were paid
cut of the regular appropriation pro
vided for the section of painting and
sculpture, procurement division, office
of the supervising architect of the
Treasury. This Is the first and only
; Federal program to co-ordinate archi
tecture. sculpture and painting.
Local Citizens Aid Project.
Committees of local citizens have
aided in the projects by stimulating
interest of artists in the competition
and supplying valuable local informa
tion of historical, geographical and
Industrial nature for the guidance of
the artists.
A number of specific appointments
were made without regard to compe
tition in the case of artists whose
work was nationally recognized for its
quality, it was pointed otft
The whole Federal art program is
directed by Edward Bruce with Forbes
Watson as adviser. It is under the
supervising architect, Louis A. Simon,
and the director of procurement, Rear
Admiral Christian Joy Peoples. Olln
Dows and Edward Rowan are among
executives aiding in the program.
EDUCATORS MEET
WITH ENGINEERS
Members of Electrical Co-opera
tive Council Confer at Bliss
School.
A group of electrical engineers and
educators, composing the Electrical
Co-operative Council of the Washing
ton section of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers discussed
• Narrowing the Gap Between Educa
tion and Industry” at a dinner meet
ing at the Bliss Electrical School in
Takoma Park last night.
The purpose of the discussion was
to co-ordinate the curricula of the
engineering schools represented in the
council and to consider the relation
of technical students to the institute
and to industry.
Representing the institute were
Harry W. Osgood, chairman. Potomac
Electric Power Co.: Dr. H. L. Curtis,
former chairman, Bureau of Stand
ards: G. G. Coleman, C. di P. Tele
phone Co.; Thomas R. Tate, Federal
Power Commission; Ralph B. Stewart,
patent attorney, and W. J. Ellenberg
er. Potomac Electric Power Co.
Dr. Ernest A. Valade, Dr. Thomas
J. Kavanaugh and Prof. Joseph E.
O'Brien represented Catholic Univer
sity; Dr. S. S. Steinberg, Dr. Myron
Creese and Prof. L. J. Hodgins repre
sented the University of Maryland;
Dr. John R. Lapham. Prof. Norman
B. Ames and Prof. A. G. Ennis repre
sented George Washington Univer
sity. and President Louis D. Bliss,
Milton M. Flanders and Ernest T.
Walker represented the Bliss School.
President Bliss presided. ,
Regiment Mourns
Whisky, a Mule9
But What a Mule!
Old Age Finally Downs
Army Pet After Long
Service.
B? the Associated Press.
NIAGARA FALLS. N. T„ November
14.—The men of the 28th Infantry
mourned a mule today, but, they
hasten to assure you, he wasn’t an
ordinary mule.
He was Whisky.
No man In the regiment recalls
whence he came. He survived a war,
a bandit hunting trip, an order to
kill all old mules—but he couldn’t
beat old age.
Some of the regiment's oldsters
say Whisky was with the 28th’s mule
corps at Fort Snelling, Minn., In
1910. He was on the Mexican border
and hauled a gun Into Vara Crus,
He went to France with the regiment,
sniffed the amoks of many battles.
Experts in muledom placed his age
at 42, and that was why, when the
order went out a year ago to destroy
all old and surplus animals in the
service, the 28th trembled for Whisky.
A unanimous protest won him an
exemption, but Whisky was on the
downgrade. He moved feebly if he
moved at all.
So Pvt. Walter Moskal, the 28th’s
best shot, stroked Whisky’s bullet-llke
head, scratched him behind the ears
—and shot him this week.
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