Popular science monthly . me Builders Really Want Taking the Advice of Plain People By Maurice Invin Flagg IT is hard to imagine art as a businessl)iiii(lcr for tlie farmer of Minnesota,or in fact of any other state. Mostart programs shoot into space. Theyover-reach the mark, with the result thatart, instead of Ijccoming a common pos-session of the common people, is a pas-time or pleasure and the plaything of thewealthy. The Minnesota State Art Commissionis a department of the state was created by an act of the legisla- ture some fourteen years ago. It hasbeen slowly but producti
Popular science monthly . me Builders Really Want Taking the Advice of Plain People By Maurice Invin Flagg IT is hard to imagine art as a businessl)iiii(lcr for tlie farmer of Minnesota,or in fact of any other state. Mostart programs shoot into space. Theyover-reach the mark, with the result thatart, instead of Ijccoming a common pos-session of the common people, is a pas-time or pleasure and the plaything of thewealthy. The Minnesota State Art Commissionis a department of the state was created by an act of the legisla- ture some fourteen years ago. It hasbeen slowly but productively tilling avirgin field which is now bearing cropsfar beyond the hopeful anticipations ofthose who were responsible for the com-missions inception. The farmers inAlinnesota are walking arm in arm withthe art commission. The people of thesmall cities and villages consult the com-mission upon all sorts of the chimney smokes or the plumbingbalks or the furnace fumes, the people 317 318 Popular Science Monthly. Model village house plans, some of wood and others of stucco, designed by the best architects in Minnesota, have been placed at the disposal of the small house builder. A photograph of this $3500 house appears on page 320
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