Rockefeller & Robinson

Last week in Manhattan Rockefeller Center awarded its third big mural contract to a U. S. artist.-- Bearded Boardman Robinson will paint a 16x10 ft. mural in the lobby of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum building. But observers found that sly Artist Robinson had slipped into his design for capitalist Rockefeller Center a vague Communist import. His mural in blue, buffs and warm greys will show from left to right "a man, woman and child; a dog, cow and vegetation, with books and instruments at their feet; a triangular group of skyscrapers, rising above churches, temples, etc. of a former time; a huge gun flanked by two masks and backed by a ruined arch." Boardman Robinson, mild radical, one-time cartoonist for the radical New Masses, might have explained this excitingly. His soothing explanation was that he wanted ''to show how relatively unimportant all machinery and material progress is compared to man and his fundamental needs, the land and his records."

*The other two went to Ezra Winter and Hildreth Meiere.

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