New Commissioner

President Coolidge appointed William Adams Delano of New York to fill the vacancy on the National Commission of Fine Arts caused by the death of Henry Bacon (TIME, Feb. 25).

The other members of the Commission are Charles Moore, Chairman; Milton B. Nedary, Jr., James L. Greenleaf, James E. Fraser, Louis Ayres, H. Siddons Mowbray. The Commission was established in 1910 to take charge of all Federal Art matters and to approve architectural and artistic projects of the Government at Washington. It is composed of three architects, one landscape architect, one painter, one sculptor, one layman.

The new member, Mr. Delano, was born in New York in 1874 and graduated from Yale in 1895. The Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, awarded him his diploma in Architecture in 1903. Mr. Delano is df the firm of Delano & Aldrich, designers of such well-known Manhattan club buildings as-- the Knickerbocker, Colony and India House. For seven years he was professor of Design at Columbia University.