AMERICAN ARCHITECT
FOUNDED 1876
FORTY THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBITION,
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
By Ralph T. Walker
The Architectural League exhibition each year is the milestone by which we gauge progress in the allied arts. It shows the promise of the future and the fulfillment of the immediate past. It is in a way the catalogue of the best in contemporary work. In it the layman and the artist both have the opportunity of comparing individual effort with the general movement in the arts. It is, therefore, the criteria of taste for the lay and the professional public, and should be considered as such.
To those who enjoy the comparison it is always
interesting, because of the marked contrasts displayed. Against the scholarly and ofttimes beautifully executed works of the selectionists of the many schools, are the highly experimental efforts which, while not always finished with the same assurance or self-complacency as that of the former, are nevertheless indicative of creative ability and a searching for the underlying spirit of the changing civilization that is ours. One is enabled, therefore, to take a measure of each group or individual.
Of this year’s milestone it still can be said that HOUSE OF MARY S. ATWOOD, STAMFORD, CONN. — BUTLER & PROVOOST, ARCHITECTS
Copyright, 1928, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.
THE
FOUNDED 1876
FORTY THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBITION,
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
By Ralph T. Walker
The Architectural League exhibition each year is the milestone by which we gauge progress in the allied arts. It shows the promise of the future and the fulfillment of the immediate past. It is in a way the catalogue of the best in contemporary work. In it the layman and the artist both have the opportunity of comparing individual effort with the general movement in the arts. It is, therefore, the criteria of taste for the lay and the professional public, and should be considered as such.
To those who enjoy the comparison it is always
interesting, because of the marked contrasts displayed. Against the scholarly and ofttimes beautifully executed works of the selectionists of the many schools, are the highly experimental efforts which, while not always finished with the same assurance or self-complacency as that of the former, are nevertheless indicative of creative ability and a searching for the underlying spirit of the changing civilization that is ours. One is enabled, therefore, to take a measure of each group or individual.
Of this year’s milestone it still can be said that HOUSE OF MARY S. ATWOOD, STAMFORD, CONN. — BUTLER & PROVOOST, ARCHITECTS
Copyright, 1928, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.
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