September 18, 1944
The Brooklyn Museum opened the fall exhibition season on September 7 with a large exhibition entitled POSADA: PRINTMAKER TO THE MEXICAN PEOPLE. Some six hundred prints, blocks and photostat enlargements are assembled in four galleries on the second floor and will remain current through October 15.
Five painting exhibitions are scheduled: OIL IN WATER COLOR, September 29-November 12, will give a picture of the oil industry at war by four well known painters. Recently Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) asked Reginald Marsh and Adolf Dehn to visit some of their operations and to tell in terms of the brush what they saw. Two other painters - David Fredenthal and Millard Sheets - were asked to paint the drama of moving oil to the fronts. The show will comprise 36 such water colors by the four artists.
EUROPEAN PAINTINGS FROM THE MUSEUM COLLECTION will go on view November 8 and remain current through January 1. These paintings, among the finest in the Museum collection, were returned from storage last December.
PAINTINGS BY CHILDREN will be on view from December 7 through January 14, showing the remarkable work being done in the Museum’s Painting Class for Talented Children.
From January 11 through February 25 an exhibition of paintings and drawings by the distinguished Mexican artist JOSE MARIA VELASCO, lent by the Direccion General de Educacion Estetica, will be presented in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
The 13TH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL WATER COLOR show will open on March 14 and continue through May 13.
The large 1944 EXHIBITION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA will open on October 27 and remain current through November 19. In connection with this exhibition, the Museum has scheduled two smaller photographic shows MODERN DUTCH ARCHITECTURE, November 3 - December 10, and RECENT PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCESSIONS, October 20 - December 3.
MODERN DUTCH PRINTS will be shown in the small print gallery on the second floor from October 20 - December 3.
A loan collection of CHINESE CERAMICS, never placed on exhibition before, will be on view from December 14 through February 4.
In addition to these exhibitions, plans are being made for a number of smaller shows which will be announced later.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1942 - 1946. 07-09/1944, 092. View Original
October 19, 1944
An exhibition of Modern Dutch Prints, assembled in conjunction with the forthcoming photographic show of modern Dutch architecture, is opening in the small print gallery October 20 and will be current through December 3. Among the twenty—five prints are woodcuts, etchings, drypoints and lithographs by Dutch artists whose works, although well known in the Netherlands, seldom are seen the America. The prints exhibited are from the Museum’s own collection and from the Weyhe Gallery.
The large exhibition or modern fine print techniques entitled “How Prints Are Made” re-opens in the large print gallery to be on exhibition indefinitely. Included in this exhibition are etchings, lithographs, drypoints, woodcuts, wood—engravings, copper engravings and silk screen prints. Also included are a number of modern drawings from the Museum’s collection.
MODERN DUTCH PRINTS
Nicolaas Eekman. The Hour
Fokko ivieos. Circus
J.F.E. ten Kloostor. The Crock
Jozef Contre. Congo Boor
Bieling. A Dancer
J. Francken. The Sower
Jan Toorop. Portrait of H. Burg
Jo Bezaan. Shepherd
Felix Timmermans. Three Kings
J.F.E. ten Klooster. The Fisherman
Dirksen van Angeren. House and Tree
Dirksen van Angeren. Landscape
Jozef Contre. In a Boat
Van Eybon. Centaur
Jo Bezaan. Landscape
J. Haak. Landscape
Dirk van Luyn. Hofstede
Fokko Mees. Clown
Nicolaas Eekman. The Two Friends
Jessurun de Mesquita. Profiles
Nicolaas Eekman. The Dance
Dirk van Luyn. Rotsen
W. Oepts. “Vechtpartij”
K. van Veen. “Kermisklant”
Gustar de Smet. Reaper
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October 20, 1944
The Brooklyn Museum opens to the public today a photographic exhibition entitled Modern Dutch Architecture and City Planning. This show, which was arranged in cooperation with the Netherlands Information Bureau, will remain current in the entrance gallery through December 10.
In the collection are a few examples of Dutch architecture of the past but the rest of the exhibit is restricted to modern architecture. Holland, although a small country, has played an unusually important part in the development of modern architecture. Before the war, architects, townplanners and building authorities came to Holland from all parts of the globe to study architecture and site planning. How successful the Dutch have been in meeting the problems of present day living is shown in this exhibition of photographs which is divided into sections illustrating utilitarian architecture, housing, schools, public and private buildings, and interiors. An understanding of space-rendering and well designed furniture can be observed in photographs of the average Dutch home.
Because new ideas of progressive education met with such response in Holland, a vast new field was opened for the architect: building schools to fit the needs of modern teaching. In their school buildings, Dutch architects show the beauty of architecture as a result of designing for a purpose instead of adding artificial “treatment” for beauty.
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