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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 52

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e. The Oregon building is just across theway from the California building, and as anobject of artistic analysis it is a most interestingsingle unit. Personally, I am not enthusiasticover it. It was most decidedly a very illogicalidea to select a building to represent Oregonfrom a country which has… … to H THE ARCHITECTURE haustible wealth of virgin forests of Oregonmakes the contrast almost grotesque. Besides,a building like the Parthenon, designed to graceand terminate the top of a hill, is surely notadapted for a flat piece of ground like the Expo-sition field. And in the choice of material…

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