FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD' 



Mural decoration, by Will S. Taylor, mural artist at the American Museum of Natural History. Pre- 

 sented to the City Park Chapel, Brooklyn, by Mr. Frederic B. Pratt 



Mr. Taylor has recently painted a decoration for the City Park Chapel, Brooklyn, which is so genuine 

 and sympathetic in its presentation of child love that the Journal considers itself fortunate to be able to 

 reproduce the accompanying photograph taken in the studio at the Museum before the removal of the paint- 

 ing to the church. Any black and white reproduction carries a poor conception of the picture, however, as the 

 color is handled with great charm. It is a pleasure also to quote in full, with the permission of the Art Editor 

 of the New York Times, the notice of the decoration which appeared in the Magazine Section of this news- 

 paper October 28, 1917. A most interesting suggestion is made in this appreciation of Mr. Taylor's work, 

 namely, that the American Museum, in its murals and group backgrounds, is in line to create a new school 

 of historical painting. In this school, the work will not necessarily lose in atmosphere and poetic influence 

 compared with the standards of art, this depending here as everywhere on the personality and power of the 

 individual artist; it will gain in never departing from a basis of truth. — The Editor 



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