Of the thirty-two paintings done by American artists under the Public Works of Art Project and selected as especially meritorious by President and Mrs. Roosevelt at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, only one of them seems to have been done by a Jewish painter. He is Julius Bloch and the subject of his painting is “Young Worker.” Mr. Bloch was one of the painters whose work was on exhibition at the Worcester Museum of Art, the subject being “Cello Player,” which, so far as a photographic reproduction could tell me, was done with considerable feeling, understanding and restraint. Of the thirty-two paintings chosen by the Roosevelts, twenty-five had previously been chosen by Edward Bruce, director of the Project, for presentation to the White House.
Guard, schoolboy, housewife, actress, dentist, postoffice clerk, iron worker, barge captain, sailor, elevator operator are among those whose paintings and sculptures are on display at Rockefeller Center these days, but the other day I heard of a painter–male gender–who makes his living by running a beauty shop. But his paintings do not smell of the beauty shop; they are rather low in tone, dark, dour and even gloomy.
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