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...College has acquired a new $660,000 Arts Center from a Boston lawyer named Edward Cohen. Cohen, who studied at Boston College and the University of California, received an honorary degree at Tufts' centennial exercises in 1952. A feature in the Center is a large mural in egg tempera including all of Tufts' dignitaries from its first president, Hosea Ballou II, to Wessell...
...LIFE correspondent during World War II, Hurd has painted on all five continents, but the people and scenes he likes best to portray are the ranch folk, the sun-blazed desert and the bare mountains near his New Mexican ranch (TIME color page, Mar. 3, 1952). His precise tempera paintings of the U.S. Southwest and its people are owned by such leading museums as New York City's Metropolitan, Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson and the National Gallery in Edinburgh. For Hurd, a classical-music fan, the Ellington assignment was his first brush with the world...
...finest of all Mexican contemporary artists, the best in our hemisphere-surely one of our century's greatest draftsmen." Two paintings from Dr. Carillo's collection (opposite), now part of an exhibition touring Japan, show that though Orozco's fame rests primarily on his tempera murals, his talent is as strongly evident in his sketches and studio paintings. Orozco's Resurrection of Lazarus, showing the raising of a dead body in a whirling atmosphere of awed faces, remains a powerful and reverent painting which transcends Orozco's protestations that he was a nonbeliever; his Cortez...
Fossil Imprints. This week the Seattle Art Museum is showing 35 of Callahan's most recent oil and tempera paintings...
...Apocryphal Book of James: "And Mary was in the temple of the Lord as a dove that is nurtured; and she received food from the hand of an angel." To portray Mary the artist used gentle modulations of beige, blue and gold, which achieve the soft tones of tempera painting. Little effort was made to indicate perspective, but the turning movement of the figures, the flowing robes of Mary and her handmaiden and the swirling movement of the angel break away from the stiff formalism of earlier Byzantine...