THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE EASTERN GATEWAY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT
By Taber Sears, in the New York City Hall
John W. Alexander, better known as a portrait painter, also chose similar themes with which to decorate the Carnegie Institute of Art in Pittsburgh, a successful piece of work. Robert van V. Sewell, for the home of George Gould, at Lakewood, did a fine frieze representing “The Canterbury Tales.” And a later man is Barry Faulkner, whose panel for the home of Mrs. Harriman, “Famous Women,” is a happy arrangement of the many celebrated feminists. The work of Albert Herter is specially noteworthy. Hugo Ballin has executed large decorative work, and Howard G. Cushing has made strikingly original panels. Other men are Taber Sears, with altar pieces, Joseph Lauber, Charles M. Shean, Douglas Volk, and William B. Van Ingen. Walter Shirlaw occupied himself at times with decorations, and Abbott H. Thayer has likewise executed a few notable mural paintings.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
- MURAL PAINTING IN AMERICA
By Edwin Howland Blashfield.
Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. - AMERICAN MURAL PAINTING
By Pauline King.
Noyes, Platt & Co., Boston. - THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN PAINTING
By Samuel Isham.
The Macmillan Company, New York. - THE STORY OF AMERICAN PAINTING
By Charles H. Caffin.
Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.
THE MENTOR READING CIRCLE
CHARITY, by Abbott Thayer