February 19, 1935
Sunday March 3rd will be the last day when the Biennial Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by American and Foreign Artists can be seen at the Brooklyn Museum. This exhibition and the exhibition of Etchings by Gerald L. Brockhurst and Augustus John will be closed March 4th after being on view throughout February. They have been favorably received by art critics as indicated by the photostats enclosed.
Opening today and remaining on view through March 3rd in a gallery on the first floor, an exhibit shows work done in the classes of the Brooklyn Museum Unit of the Art Teaching Project, Works Division, E.R.B. This unit was organized by Mrs. Ruby Warren Newby under the supervision of the College Art .Association and the Education Department of the Brooklyn Museum. The instructors are Miss Heald, Miss Kaminsky, Mr. Berner and Mr. Drewes. Portrait and life drawings and compositions, still life, commercial art, prints, marionettes and craft work pure included in the current exhibition.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 1935, 017. View Original
June 18, 1935
Two exhibitions will open at the Brooklyn Museum this week.
On Wednesday, June 19, the Art Teaching Project of the Works Division, E.R.B. will open in the Balcony Gallery an exhibition of oil, gouache and water color paintings, drawings, wood carvings, plaster casts, stone carvings, pastels, masks and photographs of murals in the Navy Yard Boys Clun, which were unveiled Monday, June 10.
The following units of the project will be represented: Boys Welcome Hall, 185 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn, Louis Woelke, instructor; Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 373 Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn, David Fienstein, Benjamin Levinson, P. Galats, instructors; Colony House, 297 Dean Street, Brooklyn, J. Brelia, instructor; East Flatbush Jewish Community Center, 663 Linden Blvd., Brooklyn, M. Gootkin, instructor; Flatbush Boys' Club, 2245 Bedford-Avenue, Brooklyn, M. De Cordoba, H, Rappaport, J. Pereira, S. Nevelson, Y. Hamilton, instructors; Hebrew Educational society, 564 Hopkinson Avenue, Brooklyn, Ann Mantell, J. Lechay, instructors; Hudson Avenue Boys’ Club, 377 Hudson Avenue, Brooklyn, O. Harrington, instructor; Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, 79th St. and Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, H. Allan, J, Pelaman, K. Sutton, instructors; Little Italy, J. Brelia, instructor; Navy Yard Boys' Club, 176 Nassau Street, Brooklyn, Gus Buncy, Miss Le Long, instructors, Public School 212, 87 Bay 149th Street, Brooklyn, Joseph Hajer, instructor; St. John's House for Boys, Albany and St. Mark Avenue, Brooklyn, Emmanuel Genovese, Q. Hamilton, instructors; St. Louis Church, Nostrand Avenue and Ellery Street, Brooklyn, Emmanuel Genovese, instructor, St. Lucy's Church, 857 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, Joseph Cordaw, instructor; Y.M.C.A., Flatbush, :Brooklyn, Irene Pereira, instructor; Y.M.C.A. Borough Park, Brooklyn, Frank Horowitz, instructor; Y.M.C.A. Park Slope, Brooklyn, Hannah Fisher, instructor.
The Department of Contemporary Art will open with a preview for members and guests on the afternoon of Friday, June 21, from three to six o'clock, an exhibition of paintings by Seven Hungarian Artists. The paintings were collected in Hungary and shipped on the "Manhattan" to the Brooklyn Museum where they arrived early this week. The artists represented are Count Julius Batthany, Lorand de Fay, Nicholas Kaplar, Anne I. Lesznay, Paul C. Molnar, Stephen Pekary and Stephen Szonyi.
ORGAN RECITALS
A new series of organ recitals in the Sculpture Court of the Brooklyn Museum will be inaugurated this Saturday, June 22, at 3 o'clock with a recital by Mr. Alexander D. Richardson. These recitals will be open free to the public and will be broadcast over WNYC. At some of the subsequent recitals, Mr. Richardson will be assisted by soloists and a string quartette. The program for June 22 follows:
1. Fifth Symphony (Andante) … Beethoven
2. Toccata and Fugue in D minor … Bach
3. Ave Maria from “Othello” … Verdi
Soprano solo by Miss Louise Taylor
4. Annie Laurie (Variations) … Buck
5. Blue Danube … Waltz Strauss
6. Intermezzo “A Prayer” from “Cavalleria Rusticana” … Mascagni
Soprano solo by Miss Louise Taylor
7. Toccata (Dorian) … Richardson
SUNDAY CONCERTS
Phyllis Kraeuter, cellist and Stanley Lichtenstein, tenor will be featured soloists in a program to be presented by the Greenwich Sinfonietta, Jacob Schwartzdorf conducting. at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday, June 23rd at 4:00 P.M.
Phyllis Kraeuter born in Columbus, Ohio, is a member of a well-known musical family. She began her musical studies at the age of five and made her debut at a state convention of School Teachers at the age of seven. Miss Kraeuter entered the Institute of Musical Art when twelve years old under William Willeke and graduated there three years later. Her playing of a Haydn Concerto with orchestra won for her the silver medal for highest honors and the $1000. annual Morris Loeb prize awarded to the outstanding student. Ir. Percy Goetchins, at that time professor of composition at the Institute remarked that Miss Kraeuter's talents in composi¬tion were such that he sometimes wished her cello were destroyed, despite her mastery of it, so that she could devote her time to composition.
In 1927 Miss Kraeuter was chosen to make her debut at Town Hall after winning the Naumburg Musical Foundation prize. The critics were unanimous in their praise. Miss Kraeuter has played with the New York Philharmonic Society; st. Louis Symphony; Minneapolis Symphony; Denver Civic Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony covering eighty cities.
Stanley Lichtenstein a young American tenor bas already made his reputation in other parts of the country including Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. He has appeared in recital at Jordan Hall in Boston and Kimball Hall in Chicago. Critics of these cities as well as San Francisco united in praising the musicianship of his work. Mr. Lichtenstein has appeared with equal success in such other musical centers as Los Angeles, Hartford, San Bernadino and San Diego.
While an American of pioneer stock, Mr. Lichtenstein sings equally well in several foreign languages. Mr. Lichtenstein will again appear with the Greenwich Sinfonietta at Astoria Park on Sunday June 30th.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 04-06_1935, 070-3. View Original
