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The art of the exposition : personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, mural decorations, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915)

Neuhaus, Eugen, 1879-1963 · San Francisco : P. Elder and Co. · leaf 136

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r sound decorativetreatment, always sustaining well the archi-tectural surrounding frame, so particularly im-portant in this great and massive tower. Dodgesbackgrounds are devoid of any naturalistic sug-gestion, which so often destroys otherwiseefi^ective decorations. The function of a decoration… … THE MURAL DECORATIONS distance. A good decoration should, as it were,allow the driving of a nail into any part of itssurface—it should not make a hole in the wall. In the two triumphal arches of the Nationsof the East and the West, Frank Vincent DuMond and Edward Simmons, respectively, con-tributed…

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