December 10, 1933
An exhibition of one hundred prints by European and American artists will open at the Brooklyn Museum on Monday December 11th with a private view for Museum members, artists and friends of the Print Department of the Museum, and will close on January 12, 1934. This group of prints are those chosen for publication in the annual “Fine Prints of the Year – 1933”. Miss Susan A. Hutchinson, Curator of Prints of the Brooklyn Museum, has for the third time edited the American section of this publication. It is largely due to her initiative that the Museum is again enabled to show this group of prints in which is represented the past year’s work of many of the leading artists of the world. As usual, although most of the names are familiar, there are several newcomers to the list.
It has been pointed out that in spite of the year of depression the graphic arts have continued their mounting popularity both with the artists and with the public. In the opening sentence of her distinguished review of the American Section, Miss Hutchinson mentions this, saying:
“It speaks well for the graphic artists that their output has been so large and of such high quality in face of the discouraging economic conditions that have confronted all phases of endeavor the past year”.
New names appearing in the American section this year are: James E. Allen, Beatrice Levy, T. W. Nason and Alexander Z. Kruso. Among the familiar names one sees again, are: John Taylor Arms, W. Auerbach-Levy, Peggy Bacon, Korr Eby, Childe Hassam, Harry Sternbeg, Thomas Handforth and Mahonri Young.
The English section of fine prints is edited by Malcolm C. Salaman, the well-known British critic. He, too, finds that in spite of conditions the output of the last year of the graphic arts has at least been equal to the best work of any preceding year and he looks with hope on the endeavors of some of the younger artists. The etchings chosen by Mr. Salaman to represent the British and Continental fields include work by S. van Abbé, Edmund Blampied, Arthur Briscoe, G.L. Brockhurst, A. Hugh Fisher, Enid Butcher, Robert Austin, Harry Morley, E. Heber Thompson and Leonard Squirrell.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1916 - 1930. 10-12_1933, 101. View Original
