Arthur Millier reports that 600 visitors attended the gallery’s opening night. He closed with, “Because the gallery is so fine, it has already been offered exhibitions of a quality which ordinarily Whittier would never have a chance to see. Whittier has shown Southern California the way”.
Arthur Millier,
April 16, 1939, Los Angeles Times

Click article twice to enlarge.
Categories: 1930's, 1939 - 1945, Built to be a Gallery, Articles