June 12, 1932
Opening on the 16th of June the Brooklyn Museum will present a Summer Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings. These summer exhibitions at the Museum are an almost annual event and in the past have presented to the public artists of established position as well as providing an opportunity for other younger exhibitors who in these exhibition have made their first appearance in a metropolitan gallery. Not a few of the well known painters known to the galleries of New York achieved their first recognition in one of these summer shows.
The exhibitors in the present show are as follows: Mark Baum, Joseph Biel, James Chapin, Leon Croizat, Mardi Gassner, Oscar Grosch, Lena Gurr, Belle C. Harris, Milton Horn, James House, Jr., Carl de Muralt, Helen West Heller, George Schreiber, David Silvette, Abrm Tromka, Polygnotus Vagis, Hans Weingaertner, James Lessesne Wells, Henry Wolf and Louis Ferstadt. In this exhibition will also be shown a large group of the water colors by Signor and Sig¬nora Onorato Carlandi.
Two other exhibitions opening at the same time in other galleries of the Brooklyn Museum are a Memorial Exhibition of the work of the late Edward I. R. Jennings, and a group exhibition of work by Chicago Painters.
The Jennings group includes stage designs and several masks designed for use in the drama.
The Chicago Painters Exhibition is circulated by the American Federation of Arts and was gathered together by Robert B. Harshe, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition as a whole gives a rather representative review of the work being done by the leading artists of the great middle western city. Included in this collection are pictures by the following artist: Jean Crawford Adams, Ivan Albright, Malvin Albright, Joseph Allworthy, Anthony Angarola, Boris Anisfeld, Emil Armin, George Baer, Martin Baer, Salcia Bahnc, Frederic Bartlett, Macena Barton, George Buehr, Karl A. Buehr, Edgar Cameron, Francis Chapin, Gustaf Dalstrom, Ruth Ford, Frances Fay, Todros Geller, J. Jeffrey Grant, Davenport Griffin, A.J. Haugseth, Helen West Heller, Rudolph Ingerle, J. Theodore Johnson, June Knabel, Beatrice Levy, Herman Menzel, Louise Mishell, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., John T. Nolf, Sam Ostrowsky, Constantine Pougialis, Louis Ritman, Increase Robinson, H. Leon Roecker, Theodore J. Roszak, W. Vladimir Rousseff, Flora Schofield, Gerrit V. Sinclairs George Melville Smith, Marshall D. Smith, John Stephan, Frederic Tellander, Paul Trebilcockj Franklin Van Court, Laura Van Pappeldendam, Hans Von Schroetter, Charles Wilimovsky.
The Exhibitions will open to the public on the afternoon of Thursday the 16th at 2 P.M., and will continue on view through October 3rd, 1932.
NOTE: The exhibitions will be ready for ‘critics’ view on and after Monday the 13th.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 01-06_1932, 046-7. View Original
