FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1940 . i s . Class -01 1932 Will, Present Poors Mural To _Col,l! „ :1" , ?, Tomorrow ~.,.„„.,_.O -,: i 7.7---,0..--.3-7,75,„- - --,-,,,t-isYi.!...:--7-•EAT::.7:7:-';'.77:,P-'., fi:3 . 4 ..- 74.r,•• , ":t . : - : - ': - ..„-:...::." .. : - .... 7 , 1(.4::;p:•:,! ..,-,;;,...,-.,„,., ~,,,,,,,-,_.,,,,... •,..„,-. 1 4,.... 40 , ; ' : . l . - 0.- t ` ,...;,, , , ''''!". ' • A "1 1, _: ". 3 -'2, ' ' „ ` • Y '. '": - %44.`!'.:;"Fkat - \ ` • ' '''' 2 ''' '_ C .-1.) ' ' ',... , •:•r: Z1:j0.;,4 - .4 • ~!..-,, " ;' ..: 7 %1 .4 '• ' ''' 43' :: ). „ i '' '- .• - A -fi r , -" i=- A i—ig 7• 4? . .1 1, 4• ' . • , -.,.., >••••".;=:. ',..,, •,' ...."---.:.. ! • -• ' - i , r-4*. r. 4-- , :; - i t .,• 4:" ` r •-• ''''lf, - ":•:: - t • 5•,,z, ; .„?.z , z, 4, 4• 4, -- w• ~..,..• ~.. .. •": -.',..'- '". ', .. 1- ":"; -.4 . ..t.' -,* .. ' .; •'' '..:: ,- , ."" •-"." r: ; . ' .- `,:'• .'" .. - 7 . -" , ..... q' s - ' ,.- r.-.'"T % • , ' .?V —:- . ~:. X t— , *pygi r , -C-' ls ' s '-:. •,,..•—....q.We.;.,'":•,.:-.,:te.: • . = - ,:. 70 . ~. 4.-.14.9-.--' _ , , ~.. : .. ,, z.• rIi;"-•: In the center of the mural the figure of Abraham Lincoln com panions a young student who holds an Unplanted tree, symbol izing the creation and future promise of the new land-grant college. The first Old Main build ing is being constructed behind these figures, while light breaks "Land-Grant Mural Only A Beginning"--Dickson Resident Artist Plan Abandoned Only the beginning of a huge artistic dream in a scheme of ' frescos around the second floor balcony of Old Main was inaugur ated when Henry Varnum Poor completed the Land Grant Mural on the central staircase wall of the building, Harold E. Dickson, asso ciate professor of Fine Arts,'has announced. When the tentative series, of murals becomes a reality, a great composite picture of the develop ment of the College from its be ginning to the present time would include panels representing the various schools on the campus and the 'major College contemporary activities. These proposed frescos could be done in many ways Mr. ~Dickson asserted, but Mr. Poor suggested a continuity of scenes around Old •arid• —oom mented that it would be particu larly interesting to paint on walls lighted by natural light; instead of the artificial lighting to be used for the Land Grant Mural. pon completion of Poor's work recently, the College was urged to employ him as artist in residence for three years, but plans were = changed, due to •_thp -lack 7neces- sary funds amounting to $.1.5,(:)00. §ources for availability of funds include:. the Carnegie Corporation,. th - 41 Buhl Founda . tion of-Pittsburgh, alumni funds, and class gift money. The latter holds forth the most hope. liowhere in the country is there a - keno project like that proposed. Suh a gift .would be peculiarly appropriate as a tribute to the Col l*, Mr. Dickson assured. • iCelillinit Make Frani Location of the mural in the lobby of •Old Main -has subjected it to- the effects of the decorative colinnns in front of the stairs. The pars are an integral part of• the picture's organization. The columns provide framing foit the . large central theme and seine to divide the fresco into its ..cOniponeßt parts • for separate viewing. 's The artist has used the position 4f the shafts to st.ltbitizo the`:prop4rtional - sizes of his fig- through the clouds overhead. Richly autoumn-toned f arm lands occupy the deep background spaces to the left of Old Main; in dustrial legions can be seen to the right of the high blue mountain ranges. In the foreground are set groups of figures typifying the primary educational objectives of Artist At Work Thousands of students, visitors, and residents of State College wit nessed the actual painting of the fresco in the seven weeks time it took Henry Yarnum Poor to com plete his mural masterpiece. Here the artist is Shown supervising the application of wet plaster. Artist Used Student Models Mary Elizabeth Hatton '4O, Don C. West '42, Harold . J. Raab '42, John R. Snyder '4O, and Thomas Slutter will be -scrutinized, criti cized, admired, and respected by many thousands of people in dec ides to come. These students—at least their likenesses—are pre served for posterity. in the. Old Main Mural. Miss Hatton served as a model for the woman student. in the sem inar group directly to the right of the figure of Lincoln. Don West was the subject for the figure with the trowl in the engineering group on the right. The other students compose the agricultural group left of the center. In additiorito the students, Har old E. Dickson, •'associate professor of fine arts, and.Johit It i ThotapSop . Ol`The class Of 1862 also -served as THE .DAILY COLLEGIAN Nr..t'Zr'''.,%; l, `" a land-grant college To the ex treme left in the fresco is a rural nome scene in which a student is taking leave of his parents for col lege. Below Old Main and near the central figures are agriculture students examining an experi mental plot of seedlings, while fellow stulents Work in the fields Fresco Attracts Widespread Prais Recognizing the rich subject matter and the degree of artistic talent of the Land Grant Mural recently completed by Henry Var num Poor, art magazines and newspape:s have lauded the fres co as the first work of its kind painted in an American college. A detailed description of - the mural is featured in the August issue of the Magazine of Art. Herein Forbes Watson, - . associate editor, says: "Out of purely Amer ican subject matter, of a particu larly significant kind, Poor has designed a fersco which is cer tainly one of the greatest works of art produced in this country." In the September issue of the Art Digest the following was said of Poor and the mural: "Poor, on his part, gave his best to produce a mural aesthetically worthy of the permance of its medium." Featured as a frontispiece in the Art News, September number, a description of the mural accom panies a composite study and a de tailed study. Full page spreads of the mural were featured in a composite and detailed studies in the Sunday edi tions of the Pittsburgh Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer reecntly. Art Conscious U. S. Colleges Secure Official Campus Artists Carnegie Foundation Supports Enterprise Colleges and universities Throughout the. United States are becoming more_art-conscious with many new artists in residence be ing appointed this year. These men are in some places employed , as teachers and in other colleges serve as demonstrators and campus artists. Many of the new college-going artists are on the payroll of their institutions while others are spon sored by the Carnegie. Foundation. The Foundation, which recently turned down a request by Penn State for a commission for Henry Varnum Poor, has sent John Held Jr., illustrator, to the University of Georgia. Through the s same I'llqa4sl l ZNie-140:049;PrPgrO: sive muralist, is now'atZalamazoo Y:....,?:._" -:?: - . t. - .4..- :-:si ,- ..;': , T.,. ''-.:1!-. behind them. On .the other sine of Lincoln a group gathered about a table is being aught by Dr. David B. Pugh, first president of the College. Sev r eral students clad in Civil War un iforms and a girl suggest military training and coeducation. Behind this group can be seen factories, Brief Ceremony To Mark Acceptance By Hetzel Special Lighting Sought For Exercises Ideal Student Above is pictured the artist's conception of the , ideal student ; one of the two principle figures which form the theme center of the mural. The youth holds a young fruit tree to be planted, suggesting the promise of future growth and rich return. Philipp has established residence at the University of Illinois. ,Spaniard Luis Quintanilla at the niversity of Kansas City will start the' irst university school of fresco .painting in the United States. Fresco is the same medium which was used by Poor in painting the Old Main mural. Muial Leaflets Available Miliaeographed leaflets describ ing the `Land-Grant Mural in de tail are available for students, vis itors, .and all other interested per sons at the Student Union desk in the first floor lobby of Old Main. Murals now completed in Amer ican colleges' include one in the Dartmouth Taibrary, a Squill , mural Atikl4,rysird,443 4 iflihe'olfotli of art al - Yale by Eugene Savage, an Am- PAGE FIVE MEI oil fields, a sawmill, and an furnace. At the base of the fresco a young mineralogist is examining a rock specimen against an out crop of coal. Engineers in a group at the right are checking plans for a stone-arched bridge which is un der construction nearby. Official presentation of the Penri State Mural, the gift of the class of 1932, will be made tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the first floor lobby of Old Main as a part of the Alumni Day program. Prof. J. Burn Helme, architec tural department, will present the speakers for the ceremony. Actual presentation of the mural will be made by H. Audrey Myers, senior class president of the donor class of 1932. Acceptance of the mural will be made by President Ralph D. Hetzel on behalf of the college. The ceremony will be brief en ough to permit those interested in attending the Cider Feed at 8:30 in the Armory to attend both func tions. No Novice, Poor Painted Way. Back In High School Henry Varnum Poor, now recog nized as the outstanding mural painter in America, was born in Chapman, Kansas in 1888, the son of a wealthy banker. • YoUng Poor got his first inspir-, ation for painting in high school and retained that enthusiasm throughout his college career at Stanford University. After his graduation .he studied abroad with Walter Sickert, fam ous English painter, and at Julian's world renowned art school in Paris until he was called to the colors in 1917 as regimental artist. Upon his return to America al the end of hostilities, Poor planned and built his artistic home in Nevi' York state, using red limestone and timber and including a pottery workshop at one end where lie began to, turn out unsurpassable pottery. After making a small ,fortune through his ceramic work, which included designing a foUntain for Helen Hayes, the famous stage star, Poor turned his genius tow ard the field of mural painting. In 1937 he completed 12 panels in fresco for the Justice Depart ment in Washington following this up with a similar work for the Department of the Interior. Sketches for the Penn State • mural were begun by Mr. Poor in • , August, J 939, Band the tetrlitsteCtlfer"'""""4"l""
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