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 160
ometimes ensues; they reject the workof A, the first-rate artist, so that they may economizemoney for the plumbing; then they decline the offerof the department store, in the interest of high art,and feel that by thus compromising they are, on thewhole, doing rather a handsome and artistic thing… … Barry Faulkner: Fragment of decoration in the house ofMrs. E. H. Harriman Example of the decorative effect of elaborate detail carried out in fifteenth-century styleand with the heads treated as portraits AND MURAL PAINTER 107 because they are unenlightened, and their publicwill suffer for it long…
Mural painting and decoration · Painting
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