Evening star., 1933-02-14
j. S. ARCHITECTS
WORK ON DISPLAY
Second Annual Exhibition of
Association Will Close
February II.
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

DI LELlh NECnLlN.
The second annual exhibition Of the
Association of Federal Architects, which
opened February IL to continue until
the goth, fills the patio Of the agricul-
tural building and comprises much OF
general interest. Consisting of work,
both official and personal, by members
Aof the four architectural divisions of
@the Government, it covers wide area
Sof effort and is pleasantly varied in
character. Not only does one see here
buildings designed, planned and erected
under Government auspices, but play
work of the designers and draftsmen-
water colors, etchings, block prints, pic
@torial photographs, sculpture, etc, much
@of which upholds professional stand
cards.
: More than 20 years ago Franklin Nc
-Veagh, then Secretary of the Treasury,
called attention to the fact that
through its public building operations
the United States Government was,
-from the standpoint of expenditure,
zone OF the greatest patrons of art
in the world. Since then the Govern
-ment building program has been great
1ly increased. As is generally known,
public buildings costing more than
certain sum are assigned to private
-architects or firms Of distinguished
-achievement-for example, York and
Sawyer were chosen architects of the
Commerce Building, Cass Gilbert of
ethe Supreme Court-but buildings of
less cost are designed by architects in
Government employ-in the Treasury
Department, Navy Department, War
Department (Quartermaster Generals
-Omce) and Veterans Bureau These.
-as this exhibition shows, cover a great
smany uses and are of no mean charac-
.ter-they are post Offices and Federal
buildings, barracks, hospitals, officers
quarters aviation stations, ETC., in all
parts of the country.
Notable Variety Of Style.
For many years all public buildings
were designed in classical style, but
this era has passed and the buildings
Eerected by the Government are today
much better adapted than in the past
to both purposes of use and location
environment. The variety of style
shown in this exhibition Is notable. also
the number Of buildings with marked
Individuality and charm-buildings for
rFiorida and Southern California are ap-
propriately Spanish mission; for New
! Mexico, Pueblo; for Maine and Massa-
rchusetts, Colonial, and for those places
without definite traditions, in q style of
their own, perhaps destined to be known
4as American" Throughout the work is
-simple and at times picturesque, never
-overornate, not yet ultra modern.
The play work shown in this exhi-
bition gives indication Of inherent ar
tistic talent. There are some very
sattractive water colors- flowers on black
backgrounds, etc. and portrait silhou-
also OF the Treasury Department, shows
e group Of pen and ink drawings. and
w. j. Hartgroyes linoleum block prints.
well designed and executed. L. M
Leisenring, r. H. woodward, w. G..
Suite and others of the Quartermaster
Generals Office contribute water colors,
Julian Brown Of the Navy Department
Is represented by wooden panel de-
signed for living room, carved in re-
lief, as well as a door knocker. There
are plaster plaques by j. L. Molby, pen
end ink sketches by ]. A. Large, G. H.
irwin and others, photographs of
scnurcnes Dy q. H. W0olfan, Christmas
cards by w. j. Hartgroyes and w. L.
1Drevo. The only etcher represented ts
Z T. 8. McClelland, but both J. Bull. jr.
and w. L. Drevo contributed litho-
graphs. The jury especially commended
the supervising architects office of the
treasury upon its presentation of
sketches.
Jury Judges Work.
No prizes were given, but instead a
number of first and second mentions.
signif1ed by gold or red discs, were
awarded by jury consisting Of c. w.
Dunn and Delos Smith. Those recefv-
Ing first mention were as follows: r.
III. Woodward, w. c. Suite, Julian
Brown, ]. E. Eckloff, L. O. Winand. v.
IN. Flagg, T. L. Molby, C. H. Irwin, w.
"A. Lockard, w. j. Hartgroves and r. g.
sMcClelland. Certain buildings were like
wise premiated, such as post ofies at
Lawrenceville, Ill; Provincetown, Mass:
Peru, nl.; Auburn, Ala; Free
bold, NJ j., and Topeka, Kans. Inter-
est1ng reconstructionS were shown of
post offices in Salt Lake City and Char
lottesville, Va. In both instances the
facades were completely ''redressed."
Much interest attached also to render
/ 1ngs Of Government buildings-the
naval air station at Sunnyvale, Calf.
: and buildings at Albuquerque and
: Gallup, N. Mex, and settings for monu-
! ments and memorials at Kitty Hawk
: and Edenton. N. c.; Cowpers, g. O.,
and Appomattox, Va.