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director, is now administrative director in charge of financial and administrative matters, and it is expected that E. Roscoe Sharder, dean of the Otis Art Institute, will fill the newly-titled position of director of art instruction.

"In all probability," continues Millier, "a year will elapse before effects of the change are appreciably noticeable in better service.

"Since 1933, when the old Museum Patrons' Association withdrew from the museum and became the Los Angeles Art Association, two movements - one to free the museum departments, the other to establish a new art museums, have engaged local art lovers.

"Whatever may or may not be done toward new museums, it seems clear to this writer that co-operative support could now build the Los Angeles Museum's freed art department into a vital community-serving institution. It has the art collectors and, in Dr. Hekking, an experienced director.

"The same legislation has made possible the future growth of Otis Art Institute and looks toward the erection there of a special art gallery to serve the school."

This, writes Mr. Harrison, "is the biggest cultural step ever taken in Los Angeles. It dates back to the State Constitutional Amendment of 1936, lost at the polls but receiving 480,000 votes - proof of California art interest.

1st July, 1938

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