Date unknown, approximately 1937: The Ninth Biennial Exhibition of Water Colors is now ready for press pre-view at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition will be opened on Friday, May 7th, with a reception and preview for members and guests and to the public the following day. It will continue on view through June 13th.
All living painters represented in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum have been invited as guests of honor for the reception on May 7th. Acceptances have been received from the following: Albert Grall, Anna Fisher, August Franzen, Philip Evergood, Harriet Blackstone, Wilford S. Conrow, Walter Pach, Jonas Lie, Walter Farndon, Jerome Meyers, Alpheus P. Cole, Charles A. Aiken, Robert Brackman, William Meyerowitz, Mary Gamble Rogers, Bradley Walker Tomlin and Anne Goldthwaite.
Woman members of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and wives of Trustees have been invited to act as patronesses. The following have signified that they will be present: Mrs. Sumner Ford, Mrs. Philip A. Benson, Mrs. Walter Hamrnitt, Mrs. Samuel A. Lewisohn, Mrs. Raymond Ingersoll, Mrs. Robert E. Blum, Mrs. Edward C. Blum, Mrs. W. R. Bayes, Mrs. William Howard Good, Miss Hilda Loines, Mrs. George Vincent McLaughlin, and Mrs. W.G. Warner.
About two hundred paintings are included in the exhibition. The United States, Germany, France and Mexico are represented. Selection was made by John I. H. Baur, Curator of Contemporary Art. Only specially invited papers have been hung. The papers in the exhibition, with very few exceptions, have never been exhibited before in greater New York. French and German papers were brought from abroad for this exhibition and have never been seen in this country before. Mexican papers are largely from the studios of the artists themselves and from private collectors.
Among the artists represented are:
In the American Section:. Thomas Benton, George Biddle, Charles Burchfield, John Steuart Curry, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Georgina Klitgaard, Reginald Marsh, Karl Mattern, Barse Miller, Eliot O'Hara, Paul Sample, John Whorf, William and Marguerite Zorach. Also many other lesser known artists and quite a large group of younger artists.
In the French Section: Marc Chagall, de Segonzac, de Vlaminck, Dufy, Laurencin, Leger, L’Hote, Lurcat, Picabia, Picasso, Rouault and others.
In the German Section: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Erich Heckel, Carl Hofer, Otto Wueller, Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, also an interesting group by German painters who have been seldom exhibited in this country.
In the Mexican Section: Emilio Amero, Jean Charlot, Miguel Covarrubias, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siquieros. Also a group by the younger Mexican artists.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1937 - 1939. 04-06_1937, 093-4.
May 7, 1937: The Brooklyn Museum opened this afternoon, May 7, with a reception and preview for members and guests the Ninth Biennial International Exhibition of Water Colors Artists of the United States, Germany, Mexico and France are represented.
Among those present were:
Mrs. Sumner Ford
Mrs. Philip A. Benson
Mrs. Walter Hammitt
Mrs. Samuel A. Lewisohn
Mrs. Raymond Ingersoll
Mrs. Robert E. Blum
Mrs. Edward C. Blum
Mrs. W. R. Bayes
Mrs. William Howard Good
Miss Hilda Loines
Mrs. George Vincent McLaughlin
Mrs. E. G. Warner
Mrs. Thomas E. Murray, Jr.
Mrs. D. A. Forward
Mrs. Henry S Ingraham
Mrs. Bernard Smith
Mrs. Mary Childs Draper
Mrs. Philip N. Youtz
Mr. Albert Grail
Miss Anna Fisher
Mr. August Franzen
Mr. Philip Evergood
Miss Harriet Blackstone
Mr. Wilford S. Conrow
Mr. Walter Pach
Mr. Jonas Lie
Mr. Walter Farndon
Mr. Jerome Meyers
Mr. Alpheuz P. Cole
Mr. Charles A. Aiken
Mr. Robert Brackman
Mr. William Meyerowitz
Miss Mary Gamble Rogers
Mr. Bradley Walker Tomlin
Miss Anne Goldthwaite
Miss Isabel L. Whitney
Mr. Samuel Rothbort
Miss Gertrude Schweitzer
Mr. Bertram Hartman
Mr. Frederick K. Detwiller
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Muir
Mr. and Mrs. De Hirsh Margules
Miss Charlotte Blass
Mr. William F. Walters
Mr and Mrs. Edward C. Uhlig
Mr. Edmund Morton
Dr. L. J. Morton
Mr. Edward C. Blum
Miss Anna Fischer
Mr. Jerome Meyers
Mr. Jacob Kainen
Mrs. William H. Clominzer
Mr. Joseph Newman
Mrs. George Pearse Ennis
Mr. Herbert Tschudy
Mr.William Sanger
Mrs. J. D. Wilson, Jr.
Miss R. Bowen
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Colton
Mr. B. F. Dolbin
Mrs. Theodore Gutman
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Newman
Mrs. Samuel Rothbort
Miss Therese Bernstein
Mr. Bertram Hartman
Miss J. A. Bogue
Mr. Frederick T. Weber
Miss Dorothy McEntee
Miss Helen Ormond
Dr. and Mrs. Louis M. Dusseldorf
Mr. Alan Pope
Mr. Grant H. Code
William Zorach
Lt. and Mrs. Paul Crosley
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Morse
Mrs. Frederick Addinsell
Mrs. Jailefro
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1937 - 1939. 04-06_1937, 102.
