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In February 1926 a new art gallery in Balboa Park was formally opened to the public in a building designed by William Templeton Johnson. In 1978, it was renamed the San Diego Museum of Art.
From The Evening Tribune, Saturday, Feb. 20, 1926:
Beauty of Memorial Art Gallery Revealed as Fence Is Removed; Now Filled With Treasure Colors
By Hazel Boyer Braun
The high board fence which has divided the Plaza de Panama in Balboa park for almost two years came down this week and revealed the beauty of the Fine Arts gallery in its relation to the other buildings on the plaza. Templeton Johnson, an architect, has created a work of art: a building which fits its space with proportions that satisfy, as it has simple lines which the Moors gave to Spain. His inspiration has been from plateresque form of Spanish architecture of the days when the spirit of building so possessed the colonies conquered by the Moors that they called every available craftsman into the realm of architecture. Man