April 15, 1925
The Brooklyn Museum announces the opening on April 15th of an Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Original Drawings by American and European Artists. Nearly one hundred artists will represented and the catalogue will contain nearly six hundred numbers. The Brooklyn Museum is especially interested in spreading the taste for water color paintings. In the contemplation of the Museum, this is an art not only replete with charm and with practical features that should make for popularity but it is worthy of the most serious study of discriminating art lovers.
The same plan has been pursued in the current exhibition as in the first exhibition of this class held by the Museum in 1921, when it was arranged for a number of artists to show their works in groups rather then by being represented by one or two examples. It is felt that by this device the artist's style and range of expression might be made more evident than in the average display, and that a more pleasing and harmonious arrangement is thus achieved.
Concurrently with this exhibition the Museum will present a group of painting by Louis Sparre of Stockholm, Sweden. This group includes nearly sixty numbers including oil paintings and etchings. Sparre was born at Gravellona in 1863 and was educated in Sweden but early in life went to Paris and studied art at Julian's and under Lefevre. After some years spent in Paris, during which time he was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon of the Society of the Beaux Arts, he went to Finland where he remained for twenty years and in 1897 founded at Borgs, the Actiebolaget Iris, a manufactory of furniture and pottery which introduced to the Finnish people advanced ideas in decorative art. In 1905 he returned to Sweden where he has since resided, painting and etching. He is a past president of the Artists Club of Stockholm, a past president of the Swedish Socierty of Graphic Arts, and was president of the "Exhibition of Swedish Art" at Gothenburg in 1924. His paintings and etchings have been exhibited in Paris, Rome and at the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh, and he is represented in the permanent collections of the Museums of Helsingfors, Gothenburg and Brooklyn.
A third exhibition which will be presented on the same occasion consists of forty-two paintings by the late Dorothea A. Dreier, which is being shown as a memorial to this artist. Miss Dreier was born in Brooklyn in 1870 and died in 1923. She studied under Twatchman and later under Walter Shirlaw, who became her recognized master. She exhibited with the New York Water Color Society, as well as in Chicago and her oil paintings were exhibited at the Société Anonyme, the Museum of Modern Art, the Society of Independent Artists, and at the independent exhibitions in Chicago. The collection includes a number of decorative paintings, as well as landscapes and views of modern New York.
These three exhibitions will continue on view until May 10th.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1916 - 1930. 1925, 030-1. View Original
