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a mural under the Federal Art Project. The Younger painters are attacking the problem of mural painting with the greatest enthusiasm. Public interest has been aroused and it is certain that if it continues America will witness a significant development of this art.

Striking proof that the nation will receive from the artists of the Federal Art Project a valuable body of art is found in the awards already won by several of these painters. For his murals at Evander Childs High School, New York City, James Michael Howell won the Architectural league gold medal. This distinction is generally conceded to be the highest in decorative painting in the United States, and although an annual award, the league has not given it any work since 1933. 

In the creative arts the Gug enheim Foundation allotted only eight fellowships for the entire country. Three of these awards went to WPA artists. The award to Harry Sternberg, of New York, who will make a series of etehings and lithograhs on America industries and agriculture on his fellowship, was the only one given this year in the field of graphic arts. The other recipients, Jon corbino, of New York, and Aaron Bohrod, of Chicago, had been working in the easel painting division of Federal Art Project.

At the annual show of National Academy of Design held in March, Eayley Lever received the Edwin Palmer Memorial prize for the best marine painting and Harold Black and Vaurice Blumenfeld were given the Julius Hallgarton prizes for oils. Blumenfeld, 17 years old, is the youngest major prize winner in the academy's history. All three are employed on the Federal Art Project.