Popular science monthly . * Jill H. &i*||.^. >--iO I c. r<. v erU< H This house can be built for $3500. It was designed by the Minnesota Art Commission What Home 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 Commi
Popular science monthly . * Jill H. &i*||.^. >--iO I c. r<. v erU< H This house can be built for $3500. It was designed by the Minnesota Art Commission What Home 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 sor
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