. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . . en iDesigned by Reynolds & OBrien, San Fran, The Architect ami Engineer. Study for a Proposed Facade, St. Peters, RomIrving F. Morrow, University of California The Architect and Engineer 43 Art, Architecture and Art Commissions* JOHN \V. MITCHELL, Member of the Municipal Art Commission olLos Angeles. Tl > protect the cities From architectural aberrations and from embarrass-ment of inartistic statuary and commercial monuments and other alleged works of art. it lias become necessary to create commissions ofexperts, whose j
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . . en iDesigned by Reynolds & OBrien, San Fran, The Architect ami Engineer. Study for a Proposed Facade, St. Peters, RomIrving F. Morrow, University of California The Architect and Engineer 43 Art, Architecture and Art Commissions* JOHN \V. MITCHELL, Member of the Municipal Art Commission olLos Angeles. Tl > protect the cities From architectural aberrations and from embarrass-ment of inartistic statuary and commercial monuments and other alleged works of art. it lias become necessary to create commissions ofexperts, whose judgment may be relied upon and accepted as final, in allquestions of civic art. This is the primary cause For the establishment ofthe Municipal Art Commission. Indeed the purposes for creating Art Commissions in cities and a per-manent Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, has rather been a measureof protection than otherwise, protection From inferior architecture and poorart in public work. For years the cities of America, acting by their duly elected hut ] 1> qualified officials, have in the erection and embellishment of public
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