MEMORIAL TO DR. ALEXANDER DRAPER, STATE EDUCATION BUILDING, ALBANY, N. Y.
CHARLES KECK, SCULPTOR
HENRY HORNBOSTEL, ARCHITECT
colored mural paintings, at once attracted a large number of visitors aside from those directly interested in the profession of architecture.
In this manner the true intent and purpose of an architectural exhibition—the education of the laity —began to be realized. With each succeeding exhibition new lessons were learned, until to-day we have in the exhibition of the Architectural League of New York, open in the Vanderbilt Galleries on
West Fifty-seventh Street, the culmination of a series of exhibitions, and one that is perhaps the most carefully planned, best executed, and most costly in its presentation, of any that has ever been attempted anywhere.
What this exhibition emphasizes in the most direct manner is the close inter-relationship that exists between architecture and the arts and crafts with which it is allied, for, while giving emphasis to the basic thing, Architecture, it has given equal prominence to the alliance. In this exhibition the League has succeeded in bringing into practical working harmony those arts and crafts which deal with the more prosaic features of construction; and while the decorator has exhausted his talents in supplying a series of rooms, each a distinct and welldesigned entity, and while the arts of sculpture and mural painting have vied one with the other in embellishing these well-balanced spaces, there is in no instance any cause to feel that architecture, in its highest and broadest sense, has been neglected.
NAIAD
A. STIRLING CALDER, SCULPTOR
CHARLES KECK, SCULPTOR
HENRY HORNBOSTEL, ARCHITECT
colored mural paintings, at once attracted a large number of visitors aside from those directly interested in the profession of architecture.
In this manner the true intent and purpose of an architectural exhibition—the education of the laity —began to be realized. With each succeeding exhibition new lessons were learned, until to-day we have in the exhibition of the Architectural League of New York, open in the Vanderbilt Galleries on
West Fifty-seventh Street, the culmination of a series of exhibitions, and one that is perhaps the most carefully planned, best executed, and most costly in its presentation, of any that has ever been attempted anywhere.
What this exhibition emphasizes in the most direct manner is the close inter-relationship that exists between architecture and the arts and crafts with which it is allied, for, while giving emphasis to the basic thing, Architecture, it has given equal prominence to the alliance. In this exhibition the League has succeeded in bringing into practical working harmony those arts and crafts which deal with the more prosaic features of construction; and while the decorator has exhausted his talents in supplying a series of rooms, each a distinct and welldesigned entity, and while the arts of sculpture and mural painting have vied one with the other in embellishing these well-balanced spaces, there is in no instance any cause to feel that architecture, in its highest and broadest sense, has been neglected.
NAIAD
A. STIRLING CALDER, SCULPTOR