TO GET 3 MURALS
on a heavy backing will become
part of the interior decoration of
the Timberline lodge on Mount
Hood.
Three Panels to Be Used
In commerce hall, three panels
—one above the doorway and two
on either side of the entrance—will
be used for the new art pieces
, which portray the general theme,
Aimee Gorham Doing Work -wisdom is the principal thing-;'
- it it ^ke center panel will show a large
TOP Commerce Hall tree of wisdom in relief by strong
__________ lights which send shafts down in
the direction of the other two
OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Panels on either side of the en-
Corvallis, Oct. 2 (Special)— Three trance-way.
striking wood murals done by One side panel is to show Ore-
Aimee Gorham, Portland artist, will gon pioneer life and spirit, and
soon be ready for placing in the will also picture some of the state's
entrance to Commerce hall here, early pioneer characters. Develop-
reports W. A. Jensen, executive sec-ment of Oregon State college will
retary. Tv/o such examples of mar- be portrayed in the third panel,
quetry, as the work is called, have As its gift to the school, the class
already been completed under the 0f 1936 is helping finance the Corn-
guidance of Mrs. Gorham and were merce hall nurals.
placed in the entrance to the for- Each of.:fh two Wood pictures
estry building early this spring. nQW in pface in the -fopestr£ build.
A total of five murals in all will ing shows a scene typical of the
be had for several college build- Pacific northwest lumbering indus-
ings here, Jensen stated. Some of try as it was carried on many
the work done by Mrs. Gorham has years ago, and as the industry is
been placed in the Irving school in now practiced using large-scale
Portland, and still other examples methods. Finished, the murals in
of the natural wood pictures made the forestry building measure 11
by placement of thin wood veneer by 15 f eet.