Classical America IV

In this eagerly awaited fourth issue of the Classical America publication, the society continues its examination of classical architecture, painting, and sculpture in the United States, with especial emphasis on the great decades from 1980 to 1940. Classical Atlanta, Georgia, is featured in Henry Hope Reed's illustrated article on Philip Trammell Shutze, architect of many fine houses, commercial buildings, and much of Emory University; it marks first national recognition for a major classical architect of his century. There are clear indications of classical building projects of the current decade in John Barrington Bayley's and Hight Moore's accounts of their recent work; and in Norman Neuerberg's account of the building of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. R.H. Ives Gammell, an expert on traditional American painting, deals with two aspects of the work of John Singer Sargent. Other writings cover Horace Trumbauer, Daniel H. Burnham, Cass GIlbert's work on the Detroit Public Library, and the Stillman Chapel in Brownsville, Texas. Mr. Coles, the editor of Classical America, writes of work parallel to classical America in the buildings of Raymond Erith, the leading English postwar architect. Mr. Coles, who is professor of English at the University of Michigan, is author of, among other writings, Architecture and Society: Selected Essays of Henry Van Brunt, and (with Mr. Reed) Architecture in America: A Battle of Styles.