A Mural Painting by Allen True Source: Art and Progress, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jan., 1914), p. 108 Published by: Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20561065 . Accessed: 18/05/2014 22:22 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 194.29.185.239 on Sun, 18 May 2014 22:22:55 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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A Mural Painting by Allen TrueSource: Art and Progress, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jan., 1914), p. 108Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20561065 .
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MIURAL DECORtATION. CARtNEGIE BRANC'H LIBR~ARtY, EAST DEN'VERt. BY ALLEN TRtUE
"The Commerce of
PAINTING BY the Prairies, repro ALLEN TRUE duced on this page, is
a mural decoration by Allen True in the Carnegie Branch Library at Denver, Colorado. Of this painting the artist says: "It stands above all as an exposition of my belief that pictures of our own American life, without allegory, are adequate for the decoration of our public buildings. Again, it seems to record picturesque phases of the West which are rapidly being forgotten. But both of these con siderations were subordinated to the necessity of making the picture fit on the wall and into the room wherein it has been placed." Mr. True has painted in the western mountains where he found the actual setting for his themes. He is at present, however, assisting Mr.
Brangwyn on his decorations for the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
ART IN Richmond, Virginia, has RICHMOND,
an active Art Club
rIRGINID, which is conducting an up-to-date and excellent
school with life classes both for men and for women, classes in elementary draw ing, still life, sculpture and illustration. The president of the Association is Major James H. Dooley, and the direc tor of the school is Mliss Nor5 Houston.
Richmond has also an active Woman's Club, which gives attention to problems of art. It has, furthermore, chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the Archeological Institute of America. The Art Club and the Education Associa tion are both chapters of the American Federation of Arts.
This city possesses some fine archi tectural monuments, old colonial build ings and also some recent works by its present architects. Among the former may be mentioned the Capitol and the old
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