Art: Echo

Dear to the hearts of advance-guard souls of the late 19205 was the newly discovered beauty of machinery. Last week, readers of the Chicago Tribune art page went their ways refreshed and expectant: Tribune Art Reviewer Eleanor Jewett had breathed deeply, pumped a powerful trumpet call at the corpse of machine esthetics. Bugled Miss Jewett: “Beyond the shadow of a doubt the most beautiful exhibit to be found in Chicago at present is the Sperry gyrocompass … the crowning achievement of the interesting navy show installed in the lobby of the Tribune Tower. … It is so shiningly perfect in color and composition and line that as an objet d’art it far surpasses the things which we are often caused to inspect and comment upon in an exhibit. … It is an amazingly beautiful device and the adjective should be written in large letters: BEAUTIFUL.”