When a public building is erected, the job is donealways in theory if not always in factby the contractor who submits the lowest bid. With respect to murals which nowadays adorn big public buildings, this principle would not ordinarily work. The lowest bidder might turn out to be a sign painter, a Greek restaurant dauber, a student. Yet last week in Philadelphia a raft of murals stood completed which represented perhaps the first, and certainly the biggest, artistic bidfest in the U. S. The murals decorated a new $3,390,000 Municipal Court, scheduled to...
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