Word: michoacan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same lobby Grace's sister Marion, 25, is working on Fruits & Vegetables. Both sisters went to Manhattan's Art Students' League but while Grace finished her studies in Paris and Italy, Marion wandered to Mexico. Last year both did frescoes for the Michoacan State capital in Morelia. A faster worker than her sister, Marion last week started on her third wall. Her peasants, a little looser in the joints than Grace's, bring to market bags of papaya, cashew fruit, guava, yams, cabbages, carrots and bananas. Among Fruits & Vegetables Marion includes a few fish...
...Michoacan, on the Pacific Ocean, is one of the least known of Mexico's 28 states. Yet there is hardly a Mexican schoolboy who is not familiar, for one reason or another, with Morelia, its capital city. There 152 years ago was born Don Agustin de Iturbide. Not even a name north of the Rio Grande, Don Iturbide was a minor Mussolini 100 years ahead of his time. He became dictator of Mexico, was proclaimed Emperor Agustin I only one year after the last Spanish viceroy was driven out. Emperor Agustin reigned for only one winter, left for Europe...
...project was started last summer when authorities in Michoacan's state university realized that they had in their museum a huge wall, unbroken except for one small balcony. To Mexican eyes this bare space cried aloud for a great mural such as decorates the main public buildings in Mexico City...
...fresco which the Rockefellers ordered out of Manhattan's Radio City (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Muralist Orozco was tied up with a ''proletarian mural" for Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. Painters Pablo O'Higgins and David Alfaro Siqueiros persuaded the Michoacan University trustees to give this great opportunity to two young men one of whom had helped Siqueiros finish a fine fresco in the Workers' Cultural Center in Los Angeles two years before: Reuben Kadish, 21, and Philip Goldstein...
Next day the Mexican Chamber of Deputies was informed by President Luiz Mora Tovar of the Government's National Revolutionary Party that Catholic rascals and scoundrels in the State of Michoacan had just ambushed and killed 15 Government supporters, "the first called upon to fall while defending the ideals of the Revolution...