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...Board of Education has just announced the decision to have the panel removed, which, of course, amounts to destruction. I do not consider this affair a personal matter and I will do everything within my power to fight for the public's right to be protected from the censorship of a few individuals who claim that "the infantile mentality of the American people" should be preserved at any cost...
Wiggins Trade School stepped into the entrance hall, bugged his eyes. Overnight the two upper corners of the panel had been painted in. On the right, flames were licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched...
...Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip to paint the Vanderlip family. Artist Katz started the mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided political subjects. His panels depict, first, the rise of the Toltec culture, based on the tools of peace; next, the Aztec culture, based on the tools of war. The culminating panel, Muralist Katz decided, should represent modern Youth walking between its twin heritages of creation and destruction...
...fellow members trotted into the school, peeked, generally condemned the painting for its ugliness, its nudity or both. Said Chairman Mrs. George Rounsaville: "The work is magnificent . . . but too ghastly for a school building." Last week she announced that her board would ask the artist to tone down his panel...
Attilio's first design for the Italian Building's glass panel Mr. Rockefeller thought a shade "too servile." An honest workman, Attilio redesigned it, eliminating two shoveling workmen and putting in the motto in Italian, "Art is Labor, Labor...