February 19, 1935
Sunday March 3rd will be the last day when the Biennial Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by American and Foreign Artists can be seen at the Brooklyn Museum. This exhibition and the exhibition of Etchings by Gerald L. Brockhurst and Augustus John will be closed March 4th after being on view throughout February. They have been favorably received by art critics as indicated by the photostats enclosed.
Opening today and remaining on view through March 3rd in a gallery on the first floor, an exhibit shows work done in the classes of the Brooklyn Museum Unit of the Art Teaching Project, Works Division, E.R.B. This unit was organized by Mrs. Ruby Warren Newby under the supervision of the College Art .Association and the Education Department of the Brooklyn Museum. The instructors are Miss Heald, Miss Kaminsky, Mr. Berner and Mr. Drewes. Portrait and life drawings and compositions, still life, commercial art, prints, marionettes and craft work pure included in the current exhibition.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 1935, 017. View Original
January 22, 1935
The Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, will open with a reception and private view on the evening of February 1:
February1:--
1. The Eighth Biennial Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by American and Foreign Artists.
2. The Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters.
3. The Brockhurst Collections of the etchings of Augustus John (144 items) and of Gerald L. Brockhurst (76 items).
Representatives of the press will be admitted to the galleries for pre-¬view of these exhibitions on Wednesday, January 30.
The Biennial includes work by 222 American artists, of whom approximately 25 are of foreign birth, 28 British artists, 11 French artists, and artists from Japan, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Palestine, Persia, Russia, Spain and Sweden. Among the American artists represented are:
Peggy Bacon, Gifford Bean, Thomas Benton, Glen Coleman, J. F. Costigan, Charles Demuths Frederick Detwiller, Guy Fene du Boiss George Pearse Ennis, Ernest Piene, Emil Gansos Anne Goldthwaitet Pop Hart, Edward Hopper, Joseph Kantor, Bernard Karfiol, Oliver H. P. La Farge, John Marin, Eliot O'Hara, Winold Reiss, Olive Rush, John Sloan, Joseph Stella, Maurice Sterne, Paul Travis. Among the Foreign artists represented are: Win¬ifred Austen, Muirhead Bone, Gerald L. Brockhurst, David Burliuk, Suzanne Duchamp, Raoul Dufy, Edouard Edy-Legrandt Serge Ferat, Boris Gregoriev, A. K. V. Hassan, Augustus John, Dame Laura Knight, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Wyndham Lewis, Lionel Linday, James McBey, Ivan Mestrovic, Fuji Nakamizo, Paul Nash, Jose Clemente Orozco, Finar Palme, Jules Pascin, Diego Rivera.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 1935, 006. View Original
February 1, 1935
[Handwritten Note: Sent to/Eagle/Times Union/Citizen Chat]
Private View of the Eighth Biennial Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by American and Foreign Arts, and the Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of The Brooklyn Society of Miniature Paints, also an exhibition of prints by Augustus John and Gerald L. Brockhurst.
Mrs. Alexandrina Robertson Harris
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Root
Mrs. Elizabeth Starbuck
Miss Vera Webasse
Dr. & Mrs. Walter Truslow
Mr. Richmond Williams
Mr. & Mrs. George Pearse Ennis
Helen West Heller (artist)
Mr. Nicholas Macsoud
Mr. Mons Breidvik
Mr. & Mrs. J.D. Erskine
Miss Anne Goldthwaite
Mr. S. W. Burbank
Mrs. F. Schefield
Dr. & Mrs. Herbert J. Spinden
Mr. Alvan C. Eastman
Dr. David Cas
Mrs. R Efson Doolittle
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jaffe
Mr. & Mrs. F. A. Sweet
Mr. Victor de Fauw (artist)
Mr. Andrew Dean
Mr. Lawerence A. Roberts
Mr. Albert N. Henricksen
Mr. Theodore Schramm
Mr. Irving Watkins
Mr. ELM Taggart
Mrs. Ceilia Buek
Miss Isabel Whitney
Mr. John Cooney
Mr. & Mrs. Miranda
Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Schoonhoven
Mrs. I. Sherwood Coffin
Miss Susan A. Hutchinson
Mr. Frank Lynch
Dr. Herman T. Radin
Miss Edna Heald
Miss Arline Aldrige
Mrs. Ruby Warren Newby
Mr. Joseph Stella
Miss Maude Purdy
Dr. & Mrs. Sweson
Miss Clara Louise Bell
Mr. R. J. Baily
Miss Beryl Roger McClosky
Miss Jane Taggart
Miss Elizabeth Haynes
Mr. E. Barnard Lincott
Mr. Harry Hering (artist)
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Zorach
Mr. & Mrs. Herman de Wetter
Mr. & Mrs. Harry S. Sterling
Mrs. James P. Warbasse
Miss Mildred Johnson
Mrs. Emilie P. Chichester
Miss Kathleen Davidson
Mr. & Mrs. Jas D. Erskine
Mrs. H. K. Hutchinson
Mr. Nicholas A. Lemtugov
Miss Edith Nichols
Mrs. Marion Monks Chase of Boston
Mr. Charles Aiken
Mrs. Marie Sterner Lintott
Mr. E. Barnard Lintott (artist)
Miss May Fairchid
Miss Elizabeth S. Graham
Miss Ida M. Wilde
Mr. Letterio Calapai (artist)
Miss Emily Nichols Hatch (artist)
Miss Edna Heydt (artist)
Mr. William Meyerowitz (artist)
Miss Emily Muir (artist)
Miss. Flora Schefield (artist)
Mr. Stuyvesant Van Veen (artist)
Mr. & Mrs. J. I. H. Baur
Mr. & Mrs. Boris Grigoriev
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Mason
Mrs. Edward Haynes
Mrs. John E. Leach
Miss Laura Bragg
Dr. & Mrs. Charles R. Weeth
Mr. & Mrs. John Webster
Mr. & Mrs. Harry Crandler
Miss Ruth Robetson
Miss Lillith Harper
Mr. Allen Perrill
Mr. & Mrs. Winthrop Turney
Mr. George Rolfe
Mr. Carl P. Zelner
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 1935, 009. View Original
