Art: New Commissioner

President Coolidge appointed William Adams Delano of New York to fill the vacancy on the National Commission of Fine Arts caused by the death of Henry Bacon (TIME, Feb. 25).

The other members of the Commission are Charles Moore, Chairman; Milton B. Nedary, Jr., James L. Greenleaf, James E. Fraser, Louis Ayres, H. Siddons Mowbray. The Commission was established in 1910 to take charge of all Federal Art matters and to approve architectural and artistic projects of the Government at Washington. It is composed of three architects, one landscape architect, one painter, one sculptor,...

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