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künstler/in: Luis Arenal Bastartitel: Tropical and Hudson Valley Vegetationjahr: adresse: Bellevue Hospital, 462 First Avenue / 27th Street, New York, USA
+: Fresco. WPA FAP funded. Maybe destroyed (see below).
I have been included in what is called the non-relief personnel of the W.P.A. Art Project. My supervisor, Lou Bloch, first assigned me to assist a group of younger painters who are preparing walls for fresco. Before a painter can ever commence working on the actual wall, he must submit a carefully drawn sketch. This is passed on by a jury, usually consisting of the director of the building and officials of the projects.
I spent some time in the psychiatric wards over at Bellevue Hospital. What a three-ring circus that place is! None of the doctors want the hospital walls painted, and they do everything possible to stop the work. But of course they can't because this is a building that belongs to the city.
On the Project at Bellevue there are two Mexicans painting walls: Emilio Amero and Luis Arenal. Arenal got himself in trouble the other day. At the last moment, when he was completing one of his panels, he changed a banana tree to a papaya. This gave the director of the hospital a chance to have the entire wall whitewashed, since Arenal had deviated from his original design.