Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis investigates and analyses the early mural work (1946-1954) by the New Brunswick artist Frederick Joseph Ross (b. 1927). Fred Ross studied art at the Saint John Vocational School during the early 1940s, where he was introduced by his teacher Ted Campbell to Renaissance art as well as the work and ideals of the post-revolutionary Mexican muralists and the New Deal-sponsored American W.P.A. artists. Influenced by their social content and compositional strategies, Ross produced five figurative murals over the ensuing years: Annual School Picnic (1946), City Slums (1950), and Humanistic Education (1954), all of which were installed at the Saint John Vocational School; The Destruction of War and Rebuilding the World Through Education (1948), a two-panel mural installed at Fredericton High School; and a mural at the Hotel de la Borda in Taxco, Mexico (1949). Of the six, only City Slums, Humanistic Education , and the Hotel de la Borda Mural are still extant and in situ. Prominent realist and social artistic convictions emerged in Saint John during the pre- and post-World War II periods. Painters like Miller Brittain and Jack Humphrey, among others, shared a similarly sympathetic outlook that portrayed the desperation, angst, and joys of the working class. Such models, combined with Ross's own murals, position the rise of muralism in Saint John during the 1940s, its ebb by the late 1950s, and its subsequent reevaluation and rebirth in public interest during the 1990s
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".