Artists as Reporters

Some time in June the gleam in big, shambling Publisher Ralph McAllister Ingersoll's eye is due to appear on New York City newsstands as a new afternoon newspaper called P. M. (TiME, Jan. 22). To publicize the coming event and round up artists who could illustrate newstories with sketches as a supplement to photographs, he announced a competition, in collaboration with Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, for newsy drawings, with five top prizes of $100, 20 prizes of $50 each. A jury chose and hung some 200 entries for the public to see, invited gallerygoers to vote their choice for a special extra prize of $250.

Last week the judges announced the winners: a squirming pen-and-ink satire on Picassomania, by Adolf Dehn; a crowd of bereaved workers' wives, by Georges Schreiber; a suicide, by Anton Refregier; a murder, by Fred Ellis; a death in the Dustbowl, by Bernard Steffen. Popular choice: a train wreck by Lionel S. Reiss.

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