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...white women, and were being defended by a Jewish lawyer who belonged to the International Labor Defense, a Communist-affiliated organization, it was plain enough which way the verdict was due to fall. It was a foregone conclusion that the attempt to get at least one negro on the panel would fail...
...main panels showed the automobile industry from the mine to the assembly line at Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant, populated by Rivera's chunky, concentrated figures. Others showed a pharmaceutical factory (Parke, Davis & Co.), airplane welders, poison gas workers, topped in huge scale by females representing the raw materials of Detroit's industries: a white woman for limestone, black for coal, yellow for sand, red for iron ore. Critics rated the frescoes first-class, noted an increasing hardness and sharpness in Rivera's detail. Nearly overlooked was a little panel high on one wall...
...nurse's white cap and the child's yellow hair looked like halos (see cut). Deliberately archaic, the little panel reminded Detroiters of medieval church paintings. Detroit's art fight started when some clergymen called the vaccination panel a sacrilegious parody. The Institute's secretary blasted back that anyone who saw the Holy Family in that picture "can see spooks in the dark!" One clergyman found a further slur on Christianity in the Gothic decorations of a commercial radio topped by an adding machine in the Parke, Davis panel. Director Valentiner retorted that the museum...
Herbert Eustis Winlock, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had news for the Press last week: the Museum had bought a picture-one inch wider than a sheet of typewriter paper. The little picture, Agony in the Garden, was painted by Raphael. It is a panel from an altarpiece presented to the Museum 16 years ago by John P. Morgan, which can now be reassembled for the first time in 270 years. It was purchased from Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Postal Telegraph chairman, father-in-law of wealthy Composer Irving Berlin...
...Raphael panel was not the only purchase from Mr. Mackay. At the same time the Museum acquired from him an Adoration of the Shepherds by Mantegna; three historic suits of armor; two belonging to Queen Elizabeth's friends, the Earls of Pembroke and Cumberland, the third to Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France; the finest sword the Museum has ever owned, that of Ambrosio di Spinola, the General of Velazquez's famed Surrender of Breda (The Lances); and the only known 14th Century tapestry depicting King Arthur...