Spring approximately 1939: On the afternoon of Friday, March 17, the Brooklyn Museum will open with a reception and preview for members and guests the Tenth Biennial International Exhibition of Water Colors, which will be open to the public Saturday, the eighteenth, to run through April 30. In addition to America, England, France and Switzerland will be represented.
The following artists are represented in the exhibition:
American, Rovington Arthur, Peggy Bacon, Joseph Barber, Gershon Benjamin, Rainey Bennett, Thomas Hart Benton, George Biddle, Robert Blair, Edith M. Brisac, Carl Buck, Charles Burchfield, David Burliuk, Nathaniel C. Burwash, Jean R. Cahan, Charles Campbell, John Carroll, Betty M. Carter, Federico Castellon, Abraham Chanin, Nicolal Cikovsky, Max Arthur Cohn, George Constant, Jon Corbino, Robert Crane, Carson Davenport, Stuart Davis, Adolf Dehn, Eleanor Edwards, Louis M. Ellshemius, Lyonel Foininger, Louis Ferstadt, Ernest Fiene, James Fitzgerald, Grace Marie Fitzpatrick, Josef Foshko, David Fredenthal, Emil Ganso, Robert F. Gates, Aaron Gelman, Harry Glassgold, Hyman Goldstein, Bertram Goodman, George Grosz, Bertram Hrirtman, Arthur K. D. Healy, Zoltan Hecht, John Edward Heliker, Charles Trumbo henry, Harry Hering, Edward Hopper, Helmut Hungerland, Gregory D. Ivy, Melvin Jules, Bernard Karfiol, Henry G. Keller, Georgina Klitgaard, Barnard Klonis, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ferdinand Lo Pinto, Norman Mac Leish, De Hirsh Margules, Anne Steele Marsh, Reginald Marsh, Karl Mattern, Lillie Stein Mayor, Knud Merrild, Barse Miller, Karl Oborteuffer, Eliot O’Hara, Virginia Parker, Waldo Pierce, John C. Pell0w, James Penney, Ogden M. Pleissner, Henry V. Poor, Lionel Reiss, Chris Ritter, Ivor Rose, G. Gordon Rothenborg, Andree Ruellan, Paul Sample, Saul, Helen Sawyer, Michael Schlazer, Henry E. Schnakenberg, Georges Schreiber, Zoltan Sepeshy, Millard Shoots, Jacob Getlar Smith, Miron Sokole, Joseph Steig, Harwood Steig, Will Henry Stevens, Prentiss Taylor, Herbert B. Tschudy, Allen Tucker, Samuel A. Tuckcer, James Turnbull, John Von Wicht, John Whorf, Louis Wiesenberg, Reginald Wilson, Stanley Wood, Andrew Wyeth and William Zorach.
Enlgish, Edward Bawden, Charles Cundall, Charles Ginner, Duncan Grant, Anthony Gross, Frances Hodgkins, David Jonas, Dame Laura Knight, John Nash, Paul Nash, C.R.W. Novinson, Vivian Pitchforth, Anthony Slado, P. Wilson Steer and Ethelbert White.
French, Maurice Assclin, Georges Aubry, Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, Claude Domec, Joan Dufy, Raoul Dufy, A. E. Othon Friesz, Marcel Gromaire, Andre Lhote, Lucien Mainssioux, Joan Marchand, Maurice Utrillo, Koos Van Dongon, Maurice de Vlaminck and Henry de Waroquier.
Swiss, Cuno Amiet, Paul Bodmor, Martin A. Christ, E. Stocker Coghuf, Martin Lauterburg, Louis Moilliet, Ernst Morgenthalor, Fritz Pauli, A. H. Pellogrini, Hans Stocker and Victor Surbok.
The exhibition is which more varied in style and subject matter than was the Ninth Biennial two years ago. Our water colorists seem to have turned away from their romantic refuge in sylvan landscapes and quaint and quiet village to a consideration of more lively subject matter related to current interests.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1939. 01-03/1939, 080-1.
March 18, 1939: Members and guests of the Brooklyn Museum attended a reception yesterday afternoon (Friday, March 17), and a pre-view of the Tenth Biennial International Exhibition of Watercolors. The largest section of the show is devoted to the work of American artists. other sections show work from England, France and Switzerland. the exhibition is open to the public today (Saturday, March 18th) and will run through April 30th.
Among those present were:
Mr. Bertman Hartman
Mr. DeHirsh Margules
Mr. Michael Schlazer
Mr. James McDonald
Mrs. Louis M. Dusseldorf
Miss Margaret Freincle
Mrs. DeHart Bergen
Mrs. C. Foster Smith
Mr. Jacob Getlar Msith
Mrs. F. N. Land
Miss Justine Cook
Mr. & Mrs. C. Schenck Van Siclen
Miss Lucille Kron
Mrs. Frank H. Parsons
Mr. Herbert B. Tschudy
Mr. Hyman Warsager
Mr. David Margolies
Sauk
Mr. Lionel Reiss
Miss Anne Steele March
Mr. Bernard Klonis
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hipper
Mr. William Walkowitz
Mr. Betram Goodman
Mrs. J. F. Montgomery
Miss Agnes Moore
Mrs. Raymod Rice
Mrss. Kee Mahher
Miss Katherience Lovell
Miss Lousice Ericson
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Colton
Mrs. J.T. Owens
Mr. Joseph Salek
Maurice Blumenthall
George Constant
Mr. Harry Hering
Mr. Chris Ritter
Mr. Ferdinard Le Pinto
Miss Manya Latour
Mrs. Joseph E. Murray
Mrs. William L. Felter
Miss Mary C. Hurd
Miss Carrie Braum
Miss Frances Ingraham
Mr. Pete Velmonte
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Tucket
Miron Sokolo
Jacob Getlar Smith
Miss Eloise Bishop
Miss Jean R. Cahan
Mrs. John I. H. Baur
Mr. Aaron Gelamn
Miss Gace Marle Fitzpatrick
Mr. Stuart Davis
Mr. Bernard Klonis
Mr. Hyman Goldstein
Mrs. William L. Garrison III
George Constant
Mrs. James Petyer Warbasse
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fitzpatrick
Mrs. A. L. Fitzpatrikc
Mrs. F. M. Lang
David Burliuk
Mrs. Grant H. Code
Mr. & Mrs. Emil Ganso
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Bitterman
Mr. John Von Wicht
Adolf Dehn
Ernet Fiene
Zolton Hecht
Abraham Chanin
Andrew Wyeth
Mr. & MRs. Laurence P. Roberts
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1939. 01-03/1939, 102.
