Mural painting in America; the Scammon lectures, delivered before the Art institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged, by Edwin Howland Blashfield; (1913)
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 150
ility and convenience, andobtained them, but they never forgot beauty, andin the creation of that great teacher of history, pa-triotism, morals, aesthetics, which is the decoratedpublic building—town hall, or temple, or cathedral—they never condemned beauty to take even asecond place. Why have we… … AND MURAL PAINTER 99 You may reply that we do not always sacrificebeauty, and, secondly, that utility is more importantthan beauty. The answer to your first objection isthat there have been a number of honorable excep-tions of State Capitols and court-houses and librarieswhose commissioners have…
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