Exhibitions: Recent Accessions to the Print Department

September 11, 1932: Opening on September 15th, the Brooklyn Museum will show the Annual Exhibition of the New Accessions to its Print Department. These will be shown in the Print Gallery on the first floor of the Museum and will remain on view through October 16th. Among the prints to be displayed are several notable examples from the collection bequeathed to the Museum by the late Emil Fuchs, painter and sculptor, and author of a popular auto-biography. Among these is a splendid print of the Whistler etching, "Venus", also a fine proof of the famous “Rembrandt and Saskia” by Rembrandt, and the “Beggar Leaning on a Stick” by the same master, “Early" an etching by Zorn, and Frank Brangwyn's “Street Scene”. Other prints in the Fuchs' bequest are 2 etchings and a lithographic by Alphonse Legros, an etching “Old Beggar” by Herman Struck; 3 etchings by Bertha E, Jacques; “By the Window" executed by G. L. Brockhurst; one by Schuntzer; “Aunt Susy Reading” by Francis Dodd, and “Reflets dans l’Eau” by W.H.W. Bicknell.

Other accessions include 2 etchings by Kenneth Hayes Miller, "'Woman, Young Girl, and Infant” and "Shopper with Umbrella” 2 Prints by Gordon Stevenson. “Hung Up”, dry point and "Sunset" dry point; 3 Prints by Philip Evergood. “Centaur Departed", engraving and dry point, “Phantom Horse”, dry point and acids and "Drawing on the Wall”, engraving and acid; a woodcut by Julius J. Lankes, “Southern Scene”; lithograph, "Old Rouen" by John Petrina; lithograph, “Italian Landscape" by Carlotta Petrina, etching by H. A. Webster, Ponte Megio, Venice” a line engraving by Robert Austin, "Wooden Bridge“ Sotto castello; dry point by Job Nixon, "Notre Dame de la garde, Marseilles"; and "The Ramparts, Sluis", a dry point by W. P. Robins.

There will also be shown a number of prints that are to be added to the Print Department's collection, relative to the history of engraving, and to the collection of Historical Prints.

Four views showing the early stages in the construction of St. Patrick's Cathedral will be of considerable value to those interested in the history of New York City. These were done many years ago by Max Rosenthal and his son.

Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 07-12_1932, 051. View Original