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Congress has already provided a site for a National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Smithsonian Institution has commissioned Charles Adams Platt to design the building (TIME, April 21). Last week, Congress was formally asked to appropriate $2,500,000 for the building-about one-third of what it will cost. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts did the asking...
Born in Germany, the young Leyendecker was brought to Chicago by his parents at the age of six. He attended the Art Institute where he specialized in the design of stained glass windows, later going to Paris and studying at the Academic Julien. For the last 15 years, he made his home in New Rochelle and established a reputation as an illustrator for commercial and magazine cover work. Leyendecker was much admired for his crisp, clear style. His death is a loss to the field of good commercial...
...departure in collegiate building design has been made by the adoption of Massachusetts Hall, the oldest college structure in America, as the keynote of the architecture. This famous old building has just been the scene of a fire, and press dispatches at the time united in calling it "the most beautiful college building in America...
...member, Mr. Delano, was born in New York in 1874 and graduated from Yale in 1895. The Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, awarded him his diploma in Architecture in 1903. Mr. Delano is df the firm of Delano & Aldrich, designers of such well-known Manhattan club buildings as- the Knickerbocker, Colony and India House. For seven years he was professor of Design at Columbia University...
...design the National Gallery of Art, for which Congress recently donated a site, the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have selected Charles Adams Platt. Mr. Platt contemplates a two-story structure of granite to house the nation's $5,000,000 art collection...