Painting By Chicagoan " MARTYL " Schweig Langsdorf - Japanese Mountains
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Original painting by deceased Chicagoan "MARTYL" Schweig Langsdorf depiting Japanese Mountains. Painted on handmade rice paper. Floated and Framed.Martyl was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother was a painter and her father a portrait photographer. She earned a degree from Washington University in St. Louis. In 1942 she married physicist Alexander Langsdorf, Jr. who worked on the Manhattan Project. They had two daughters, Alexandra and Suzanne.Alexander helped found the Bulletin of... the Atomic Scientists in 1945 . in 1947 Martyl created the Doomsday Clock image as a symbol of impending nuclear destruction, for the cover of the June 1947 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She thought a clock, set at seven minutes to midnight, would convey "a sense of urgency." Both before and after that project, she painted abstract landscapes and murals. Her mural work includes an oil on canvas mural titled Wheat Workers for the Russell, Kansas post office, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, and completed in 1940.
