February 5, 1925
The Brooklyn Museum announces the first public showing on February 5th of the First Independent Exhibition of the National Society of Mural Painters. The officers of the Society for 1924 and 1925 are - Edwin H. Blashfield, Honorary President; J. Monroe Hewlett, President; Arthur Covey, First Vice-President; Bancel La Farge, Second Vice-President; Duncan Smith, Treasurer; Ezra Winter, Secretary; and the Committee on Exhibitions is J. Mortimer Lichtenauer, Chairman, D. Putnam Brinley, Arthur Covey, Allyn Cox, F. Dana Marsh, Ernest Peixotto, and Ezra Winter. The exhibition has been placed in the rotonda gallery of the Museum and extends throughout the rooms of the east wing. The contributing artists number upward to eighty names which include many of the best-known artists of the time. The Dean of American Mural Painters, Edwin H. Blashfield, is represented by an extensive exhibit of reproductions of his work in public buildings throughout the country.
The exhibition assumes an international character owing to the presence of the work of several foreign painters. One gallery will be entirely devoted to the exhibition of a collection of paintings by leading French artists. Among these may be noted the presence of eight cartoons and two paintings by Albert Besnard, of a set of four cartoons for the dome of the Pantheon by Puvis de Chavannes, of a group of cartoons by Maurice Denis and work by Desvallieres, Gorguet and Jaulmes.
In addition to this the Museum has secured a group of paintings by the great Spanish painter, Hermengildo Anglada y Camarasa, which constitute the first representative collection of his work to be shown in New York. These pictures will be exhibited as a group in a separate gallery in order that their essentially individual character may be preserved. The collection consists of nine canvases.
In the Museum's American galleries space will be devoted to the exhibition of a number of canvasses by the late Alfred Collins which have been assembled from various private sources. These exhibition will remain on view at the Museum until March 3rd.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1916 - 1930. 1925, 016-7. View Original
