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.
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April 28, 1945
The Brooklyn Museum announces that the 13th Biennial International Water Color Exhibition has been extended through Sunday, May 6, 1945. The show was originally scheduled to close on April 30.
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March 8, 1945
The Brooklyn Museum opens to the public today its 13th Biennial International Water Color Exhibition, after a preview yesterday afternoon for exhibiting artists, Museum Members and their guests.
The exhibition this year is devoted to a survey, as complete as wartime conditions permit, of water color in the United States. Over 150 papers are included in the exhibition, representing the work of artists in the West and Midwest as well as those on the Atlantic seaboard. As in the past, a dual policy has guided the selection of work for the show. The aim has been, first, to show the progressive trends of the moment in water color painting and, second, to allow liberal representation to lesser-known men of talent as well as to those whose reputations are already well established.
Among the artists exhibiting are: Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Milton Avery, Aaron Bohrod, Raymond Breinin, Charles Burchfield, Howard Cook, Stuart Edie, Lyonel Feininger, David Fredenthal, Morris Graves, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Dong Kingman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob Lawrence, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Louis Schanker, Ben Shahn, Nahum Tschacbasov, and Karl Zerbe.
The Brooklyn Museum gratefully acknowledges the help of the Whitney Museum of American Art, without which it would have been impossible to have the exhibition this year.
The exhibition is installed in the Entrance Hall and Special Exhibition Gallery and will be current through April 29.
PRESS PREVIEW: MONDAY, MARCH 5, FROM 10 TO 4:30.
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