Art: Sea Murals

If San Francisco should presently become as distinguished for its arts as for its setting, San Franciscans would owe many thanks to WPA. Already hopeful of this, San Francisco WPA officials were pleased as Punch last week at the dedication of one of the most sophisticated WPA building jobs in the U. S.—a new, $1,500,000 Aquatic Park overlooking the Golden Gate.

No park at all, Aquatic Park is essentially a glorified bathing place on a more modest scale than Long Island's colossal Jones Beach. Its main pavilion is designed on the lines of a...

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