Harvard Studies Murals

ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, the Department of Art and Archaeology played host to a group of professors and students from Cambridge who accompanied the distinguished Mexican scholar, Dr. Justino Fernandez, to Hanover to study at first hand the Orozco mural paintings in the Baker Library. This pilgrimage was the culmination of a special seminar on Orozco which Professor Fernandez had conducted during the preceding week for the benefit of students in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard.

Professor Fernandez, who is regarded as an authority on Spanish and Mexican Art, occupies the chair of the Latin American Exchange Professorship at Harvard during the present semester. It is interesting to learn that both in his writings and in his public lectures he expresses his considered judgment that Orozco's Dartmouth murals, both from the esthetic and the historical points of view, are the most important mural paintings in America.