the decorative scheme or, inthe case of an important canvas, served as the key-note for the decoration of the room. But the true note had not yet been sounded.The architects knew it. The interior decoratorsknew it. The painters knew it. The missing ele-ment was the mural painting, that gloryof the… … approach to it in our most lux-urious homes was the decor-ated ceiling which gradually was replaced by thetimbered or coffered roof. The next step, ofcourse, was inevitable. The hour of the muralpainting in America had arrived at last. It is one of the curious phenomena of thegrowth and change of…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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