Gardner Hale (1894–1931)

As usual with old Dover reprints, this is informative, practical, readable by the layman but not over-simplified, and no longer than it needs to be. While I would have preferred more mention of non-European fresco traditions, it covers at least all the technical basics very nicely, and enthusiastically enough to convince the reader that fresco ought to be commoner than it is (even if they aren't, like myself, already convinced of that proposition).

I am, however, somewhat more skeptical of the author's conviction that in 1933, the time of writing, fresco painting had entered a new Golden Age in America.… (meer)