December 5, 1932
On December 9 the Brooklyn Museum will open to the public a group exhibition of paintings by various artists which will remain on view until January 2, 1933. The list of exhibitors is headed by a memorial exhibition of original drawings by the late Victor Wilbour, shown for the first time in New York. Mr. Wilbour was the son of the American Egyptologist, Charles Edwin Wilbour, and executed the paintings to record the places he visited in Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
An unusual item will be the silhouettes by Baroness Mayiell a former pupil of the Russian artist Biliben in St. Petersburg Academy. On December 13 at 3:30 P.M. the Baroness will give a gallery tour in the De Shabelskoy Collection of Russian embroideries, laces and costumes, the gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, a collection with which the Baroness has been familiar since her childhood in Russia.
The collection of paintings presented to the Brooklyn Museum by Dr. and Mrs. Davenport of Paris and the late Mr. Alfred W. Jenkins, trustee of the Museum, will be put on exhibition for the first time. This collection is representative of some of the best known names of contemporary European and American painters such as Kees Van Dongen, Lucien Simon, George Oberteuffer and Foujita.
Miss Elisabeth Telling will show a group of pastel drawings done in the Far East, in Bali, Java, Siam and North Siam. The paintings lent by Marie Sterner are by such artists as Albert Sterner, Jean Lurcat, Sir William Orphen, Rubin and Pedro Pruna.
A group of original illustrations made for Harper Brothers publications in the latter years of the last century by such men as Edwin Abbey, Joseph Pennell, Peter Newell and Frederick Remington will be lent for exhibition by Miss Lillie Harper. Charles Kassler, an American artist, will show frescoes and water colors, the majority of which are of African subjects, done in Egypt, Nubia and the Soudan.
Leon Carroll will exhibit decorative flower paintings and there will be a memorial exhibition of pastels by A. C. Goodwin of Boston.
Also studies of Indians of the Southwest in bronze by George W. Blodgett will be on display. Mr. Blodgett has chosen his types from the Pueblo tribes, the Utes, Apaches and Navajos.
NOEE; This exhibition will be ready for view by the press Wednesday afternoon, December 7.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 07-12_1932, 075-6. View Original
