Born in Moscow, Refregier ‘moved to Paris & then to New York in 1920. He worked in a factory before earning a scholarship to [RISD] where he studied until 1925. He returned to [NY] & worked commercially, producing inexpensive copies of famous paintings for interior decorators until 1927. He then returned briefly to Europe to study in Munich. Back in [NY], Refregier lived in the Mount Airy artists’ colony on Croton-on-Hudson. He wanted to paint murals & in 1936, the Federal Art Project of the Works Project Administration (WPA) hired him. For the WPA, he created murals at Greenpoint Hospital in Brooklyn ... & at the Rincon Post Office in San Diego... The latter, a 27-panel work entitled “History of San Francisco,” took 8 years (1940-1948) & cost $26,000 to complete. The mural was controversial because of its depiction of tragic historical moments. Some wanted it destroyed; it was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1979. ...’ poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html

#Fortune for #JUNE 1950
‘New Coal-Mining Tools’
Illustration by Anton Refregier (1905-1979)
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Cover of *Fortune*, June 1950
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