Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1935, Page 12

ART COMPETITION WINNERS CHOSEN 12 Sculptors and 6 Painters Chosen for Work in Twelve sculptors and six painters won the Government’s national com- | petition for murals and sculpture in | the new Post Office and Justice De-| partment Buildings, it was an- nounced last night by the section of | painting and sculpture of the Treas- | ury Department. | At the same time, announcement was made all of the designs offered in the competition for three murals, for the Justice Department Building | had been rejected. The jury recom- mended that a limited invited com- petition be opened to which nine painters will be asked to submit new designs. 47 Sculptors Compete. Forty-seven sculptors competed for appointments for the Post Office De- partment models and submitted 62 sculpture models. Twelve different types of mail carriers were selected es subjects for the proposed statues. The artists, all of New York City, se- lected to execute the statues and the type follow: Berta Margoulies (foot postman, Colonial, 1691 to 1775); Stirling Cal- | der (post rider, Continental, 1775 to 1789); Sidney Waugh (stage driver, United States Post Office, 1789 to 1836); Arthur Lee (pony express, 1850 to 1858); Concetta Scaravaglione (railway mail, 1862); Carl L. Schmitz (city delivery carrier, 1863); Gaetane Cecere (rural free delivery); Oronzio Maldarelli (air mail); Chaim Gross (Alaskan snowshoe carrier); Attilio Piccirilli (present-day postman); Heinz Warneke (expressman), and Louis Slobodkin (Hawaiian, Puerto Rican or Philippine postman). In addition to these statues, figures | of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Osgood will be carried out by William Zorach and Paul Manship, respec- tively. These two sculptors were ap- pointed without competition. Jury on Sculpture. The jury which selected the win- ners for the Post Office sculpture con- sisted of Alice Decker, Paul Manship and Willlam Zorach, sculptors, and William Adams Delano, architect of the Post Office Building. Artists selected to execute the eight murals to be placed in the Post Office Building are Alfred D. Crimi, the Bronx, New York: William C. Palmer, New York City: Frank Mechau, Colo- rado Springs, Colo.; George Harding, Wynnewood, Pa.; Ward Lockwood, Taos, N. Mex., and Karl Free, New York City. Two other artists also were named— Doris Lee and Tom Lea—but both ‘were asked to redesign. Serving on the jury which selected the winners of the Post Office murals THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 27, 1935—PART ONE. ‘ Works of Art Selected for Post Office Building | T | New Buildings. | ‘ No. 1—“Express Man,” sculptured by Heinz Warneke of New York, selected by Paul Manship, William Zorach and Alice Decker, sculptors, and William Adams Delano, architect, for the new Post Office Building No. 2—One of the winning designs, by William C. Palmer. The jury of award included: Edward Bruce, Olin Dows, | Being Attacked by Indians.” The title is “Stage Coach Bancel LaFarge, Eugene Speicher. Jonas Lie, Henry Schnakenberg, No. 3—"The Pony Express,” by Frank Mechau. were Edward Bruce, Olin Downs, Leon | Kroll, Bancel La Farge, Jonas Lie, Ernest Peixotto, Henry Schnakenberg and Eugene Speicher. This jury re- | Jected the proposed designs for the | Justice Department Building. Appointed Painters. Famous painters, not in the com- | petition, previously appointed to exe- cute leading murals in the two new buildings, are Thomas Benton, J. S. Curry, Leon Kroll, Henry Varnum Poor, Eugene Savage, George Biddle, Rockwell Kent, Reginald Marsh, Boardman Robinson and Mauriée Sterne, For the murals in the Post Office Building, 142 artists competed and submitted 315 sketches, while for the Justice Department Building murals 55 artists entered 90 sketches. Twenty- seven States were represented in the competition, and 21 artists, in addition to those who won, were recommended for future appointments. The sculpture models and mural de- signs that won competitions in various 5 q sectiong of the country during the first | year of activity of the section of painting and sculpture, together with a number of the murals and sculp- ture models done by artists appointed without competition, will be on exhibit in the Corcoran Gallery of Art from Tuesday until November 21. 'DEAN TO TEACH WRITING Rev. Speer Strahan of C. U, to Conduct Catholic Alumnae Class. Rev. 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