January 17, 1932
“Exhibition of Paintings by American Impressionists and other Painters of the period 1880–1900" will open at the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday, January the nineteenth with a private reception and review for members on the preceeding monday evening. The exhibition will [unintelligible] the month of February.
The exhibition is not a comprehensive one by design but aims to place a few accents on the period, the exhibitor, "We all deceased and in the majority of cases sufficient time has passed for a real evaluation to be possible.
Among the artists whose work will be shown are John W. Alexander, Mary Cassatt, William M.Chase, Henry G. Dearth, John Twachtman, Johan Alden Weir and others.
This span of twenty years is one of the richest in the history of American Art and within that comparatively short period many changes and developments occurred. The Munich School and the Beaux-Arts-Bougu¬reau style reacher their apex and then passed away with the advent of the Impressionist movement. Students returned from abroad full of the enthusiasm of the new view toward color and the charms of the new technic. But despite the preponderance of European taste in all the culture of America at that time there were a few hardy soul who had withstood the convention that required the artist to study abroad and in their quiet way a few of them had attained an important individualism that has placed them well in the foreground of art. Certainly A. P. Ryder and Arthur B. Davies could not well be classed under the banner of Impressionism but their place in American art is as sure as their Americanism.
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January 18, 1932
The outstanding event of the season at the Brooklyn Museum will be the Members' Evening: on Monday. January 18th. The occasion will be the opening of the brilliant exhibition of “Paintings by American Impressionists and Other Artists of the Period 1880–1900”. The fourth floor galleries will be opened at 7:30 for inspection of the exhibition and at 9:00 the Stradivarius String Quartet and Frank Sheridan, the distinguished pianist will present a musical program in the Sculpture Court.
Members, and wives of members of the Museum's Governing Board will act as hostesses for the affair. Their names are as follows:
Mrs. Kenneth Frazier
Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood
Mrs. John Hill Morgan
Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt
Mrs. Mary Childs Draper
Mrs. John T. Underwood
Mrs. William H. Good
Mrs. Edward C. Blum
Mrs. Dean C. Osborne
Officers of the Junior League and members of the League’s Museum Committee will also assist during the evening. The following members have been invited to serve:
Miss Nancy Humpstone
Miss Elizabeth Garvin
Mrs. Earl Harris
Miss Dorothy Johnson
Miss Frances Keech
Mrs. Edwin P. Maynard, Jr.
Mrs. Robert A. Bardack
Mrs. Grant Caldwell
Mrs, John B. Dunlop
Miss Lois Thayer
Mrs. Edmond Drewson
Miss Marjorie Fitch
Miss Mary Francis
Mrs. Coverly Fischer
Miss Florence E. Read
Mrs. Robert E. Blum
Miss Micheline Allen
Miss Arrietta Smith
Miss Evelyn Sherman
Mrs. Austen Tomes
To the Society Editor
Will you have a reporter here for this?
Thank you.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 01-06_1932, 006. View Original
