September 30, 1939
An exhibition called “The Putnam Memorial Print Exhibition” is being arranged by the Brooklyn Museum Print Department to be on view at the Museum from Saturday, October 7th, through Sunday, October 29th. It will present a cross-section of the Museum’s print collection and will include a group of Rembrandt etchings collected and given to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. William A. Putnam. Mrs. Putnam also made possible the institution’s modernly equipped print room by a gift in the form of a memorial to her husband.
(NOTE TO ART WRITERS: A more comprehensive release will be sent you early next week together with the earliest date the show can be seen.)
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1939 - 1941. 09-10/1939, 223. View Original
October 7, 1939
A Print Room exhibition showing a cross section of the print collection of the Brooklyn Museum will be put on view Saturday, October 7th, to run through Sunday, October 29th. It will be called “The Putnam Memorial Print Exhibition” as the largest group by one artist in the show will be etchings by Rembrandt collected by. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Putnam and now the property of the Museum. Mrs. Putnam made the Museum’s Print Room and its facilities possible by a gift of funds for the purpose as a memorial to her husband. The forthcoming exhibition will be the Print Room’s second anniversary.
This cross section will consist for the greater part of XIXth and XXth Century prints, but there will be milestones of the preceding periods beginning with the Museum’s Rembrandts. These with the bulk of the exhibition will be shown in the Balcony Gallery. There will also be a few followers of Rembrandt, Italian and Spanish Baroque masters, such as Ribera, Tiepolo and Canaletto. This work along with the Goyas will lead to the beginning of the XIXth Century Impressionist movement. The Goyas shown will be from one of the finest sets of Los Caprichos that exists. The binding in which the set was bound, together with the finest of the impressions, will be on view.
There will also be early and late lithographs and wood engravings by Honore Daumier and one of the large lithographs by Manet. The XVIIIth Century English School will he represented by some exceptionally fine engraver’s proofs of mezzotints by Green, Earlom and others, given to the Museum by Mrs. Joseph Epes Brown in 1918.
French impressionists and post-impressionists will be included, and the German School, which has recently been much discussed under the label “degenerate art”, will be represented in sufficient quantity to make study possible. Examples of abstract art are to be represented by a number of prints which show characteristic contemporary trends in experiments with new media and the modern illustrated book stressed, as many of the great contemporary artists have done some of their best graphic work for books. Among the editions, a few of those issued by the late Ambroise Vollard will be exhibited.
In another gallery, called the Print Gallery, there will be a small, choice showing of modern drawings including Van Gogh’s highly finished study for the “Cypresses,” a Cezanne landscape and “Head of a Boy” by Picasso.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1939 - 1941. 09-10/1939, 231. View Original
October 7, 1939
LIST OF PRINTS IN BROOKLYN MUSEUM
PUTNAM MEMORIAL EXHIBITION-October 7th through October 29th.
ARMS John Taylor
Basilica of the Madelina, Vezelay
TENRIETH, C.
City Hall of Brooklyn
BACON, Peggy
Belinda
BECKMAN, Max
Bridge
Christ in the Desert
BIDDLE, George
Twenty-Three Little Women
BONINGTON, Richard
Tour du Gros Horloge, Evreux
BONNARD, Pierre
La Blanchisseuse
CANALE, Antonio
Panorama d’une Ville Baignee par une Riviere
CASSATT, Mary
The Fitting
La Toilette
Coiffure
CASTELLON, Federico
Landscape in Spain
CHAGALL, Marc
Illustration for a Russian
CHARLOT, Jean
Mama Spanks
Builders No. 2
CHIRICO, Georgio de
Mediterranee
CLERK OF ELDIN, John
Kirk Liston & Melville Castle
Adam’s Hut & Castle on Lake
CRUIKSHANK, George
Election Ball
A Game of Chess
The Folly of Crime
DAUMIER, Honore
Rue Pierre Lescot
DAVIES, Arthur B.
Growth of Spring
DEGAS, Edgar
Au Louvre, Musee des Antiques
DEHN, Adolf
We Men
DELACROIX, Eugene
Lion do l’Atlas
LENIS, Maurice
Sur lo Canape d’Argent Pale
DURER, Albrecht
Descent into Limbo
DWIGHT, Mabel
American Mansion
EARLOM, Richard
Concert of Birds after Mario di Fiori
EVENEPOEL, Renri
Woman and Child
FRIESZ, Achi1les
Toulon
GAUGUIN, Paul
Changement de Residence
Projet d’Assiette
GOTTHOLD, Schuh
Photograph of Georges Braque in his studio
GROSSMAN, Rudolph
Interior of Room with Six People
HART, George Overbury “Pop”
Poultry Man
Market Place, Santiago
HAYTER, Stanley Wil1iam
Horse and Buildings
HECKEL, Erich
Three Figures in a Native Dance
ISABEY, Jean Baptiste
Portrait of a Lady with Veil
JACQUEMMRT, Jules
Verre de Cristal de Roche
KYOSAI, Kawanabe
Two Crows
KENT, Rockwell
Sermilik, Fjord
KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig
Head of Doris (Kopf Doris)
KOLLOWITZ, Kathe
Portrait of Woman in Blue Blouse
LALAUZE, Adolphe
Autour du Piano after painting by Jean Beraud
LAMI, Eugene
Suspension D’Armes
Bivouac sur la Lisiere d’un Bois
LE CORBUSIER
Set of Four Lithographs No. 1
LEYDEN, Lucas van
The Daughter of Herodias with the Head of John the Baptist
LIMBACH, Russell T.
The Crow Tree
LIST OF PUNTS IN BROOKLYN Page 2
MAILLOL, Aristide
Femme, Vue a Mi-Corps
MANET, Edouard
Guerre Civile
MATISSE, Henri
Hue Assise
MELZER, Moritz
White Horse with Nude Figures
MENZEL, Adolf von
Portrait of Moliere
MERYON, Charles
Le Petit Pont
MUNCH, Edvard
Madonna
NANTEUIL, Celestin
Soldats Jouant aux Des
OROZCO, Jose
Clemente - Study for a Mural
PECHSTEIN, Max
Woman in Waves
Head of Man with Closed Eyes
Mother and Child
PECK, Augustus
Clown as a Fireman
PLOOS VAN AMSTEL, Cornelis
Portrait of a Man, after Cornelis Visscher
MACHOU, Henri
Panneau Decoratif
REDON, Odilon
Et un autre ange sortit du Temple qui est le ciel
REMBRANDT, Harmensz
Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmae1
A Peasant in a High Cap
Peasant Family on the Tramp
Jan Uytenbogart receives General (Gold Weigher)
Christ Healing the Sick
Death of the Virgin
Lieven Millemsz van Coppenol
Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician
Jan Six
The Three Trees
Canal with large boat and bridge
Rembrandt drawing at a window
The Ange1 appearing to Shepherds
Jews in a Synagogue
Triumph of Mordecai
The Windmill
RENOIR, Auguste
Pierre Renoir de Face
RIBERA, Giuseppa
The Poet
RODIN, Auguste
Victor Hugo de Trois Quart
ROLFS, Christian
Head of a Woman
ROUAULT, Georges
Self Portrait
ROUSSEL, K. Xavier
Dans la Neige
SEGONZAC, Andre
La Troille Muscate de Collette
SCHANKER, Louis
Abstraction
SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF, Karl
Girl with vase of Flowers
SCHUPPEN, Pieter van
Simeon Joseph de Barbot de Lardienne
TIEPOLO, Giovanni
Battista - Magician Seated and
Observing the Skulls
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri
La Petit Loge
Mlle. Lender, en Buste
TURNER, Joseph Mallord W.
Basic
VALLOTON, Felix
Le Bain
VUILLARD, Edouard
La Cuisiniere
Terrasse do Cafe, La Nuit
WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeil
The Thames
WILSON, Stanley
Summer
LIST OF DRAWINGS IN BROOKLYN MUSEUM
PUTNAM MEMORIAL EXHIBITION-October 7th through October 29th
CRUIKSHANK, George
Ophelia at Home
DEGAS, Edgar
Danc ers
DELACROIX, Eugene
Lioness devouring a Rabbitt
VAN GOGH, Vincent
Cypressess
I. G.
Portrait of Cruikshank
GREENSTEIN, Benjamin
Torso in half reclining position
GUYS, Constantin
Cavaliers
Ca1eche I
Deux Femmes
Caleche II
HOMER, Winslow
The Unruly Calf
JOHN, Augustus
Head of a Man
KLEE, Paul
Portrait of Woman
NASMYTH, Patrick
Study of Trees
PECHSTEIN, Max
Circle of Dancing Nudes
PHILIPPON, Charles
Soult et Gérard
PICASSO, Pablo
Tete de Jeune Homme
RODIN, Auguste
Reclining Nude, forshortened
Nude Dancer facing left
SOGLOW, Otto
Cartoon
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de
Portrait of Comtesse Adele Toulouse-Lautrec
LIST OF BOOKS IN BROOKLYN MUSEUM
PUTNAM MEMORIAL EXHIBITION-October 7th through October 29th
CHARLOT, Jean
Picture Book
CHASE, William Merritt
Sketch Book
DUFY, Raoul
Mon Docteur Le Vin
GIFFORD, Sanford Robinson
Sketch Book
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francesco
Los Caprichos
Los Caprichos (3 or 4 prints)
PASCIN, Jules
Aus Den Memoiren des Herrn von Schmabelewopsky von Heinrich Heine
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1939 - 1941. 09-10/1939, 239-241. View Original
October 16, 1939
To Reviewers:
From the results we draw the conclusion that the release about the Putnam Memorial Print Exhibition apparently told the story so completely that reviewers have found it unnecessary to come to the Museum and give us a critical estimate. This is rather disappointing to the Museum as we take this opportunity to demonstrate to the public for the first time now complete and useful a print collection we now have. We would still appreciate it very much if you would find it possible to call and give us a review.
For the first time in the history of the Museum’s Print Department we have been able to give a comprehensive cross-section of the history of 19th and 20th century printmaking in Europe and the U.S.A. through material from the Museum’s permanent collection. This collection today ranks among the first in the 19th and 20th century print field. Museums throughout the country have, in the last few years, drawn heavily on the Museum’s Collection for contributions to exhibitions.
It contains many important prints that will not be found in other collections in this country. Such outstanding drawings as Van Gogh’s Cypresses are among the more recent acquisitions of the Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings., The finest copy of Goya’s Caprichos and the most important group of lithographs by Lautrec in the U.S.A. are among the high spots of our collection.
CARL O. SCHNIEWIND
Curator of Prints and Drawings
ARTHUR H. TORREY
Publicity
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September 16, 1939
Ten exhibitions are already on the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition schedule for the 1939-1940 season. As an opener, in order to be current with the style news, an exhibition of a more or less preliminary character opened on Saturday, September 9th, called Style Foundations--Corsets and Fashions of Yesterday and Today, to run through October 1st.
The first exhibition of the season opens on Friday, September 22nd, and will be called “Long Island in the 70’s". It will be a showing of some 160 prints of Brooklyn and Long Island scenes taken from a collection of over 2000 negatives of scenes in Long Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and the Hudson Valley, taken by George B. Brainard and acquired by the Museum twenty years ago. Only recently these negatives were brought to light by the Photographic Department. It will exhibit a cross section of the Long Island subjects and will demonstrate the character of the hundreds of records that Brainard made during his busy photographing days. Closing date is October 8th.
In memory of William A. Putnam, who made possible the Museum’s Print Room, an exhibition will be arranged to be called “The Putnam Memorial Print Exhibition” to run from October 7th through the 29th. It will consist of prints by Rembrandt, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Putnam, and other graphic material from the Brooklyn Museum collection.
The year’s accessions will be put on view from Saturday, October 14th, through Sunday, the 29th.1 This will be followed by the first large comprehensive show of the season which will be as complete a collection as possible of masks, drawing for the most part from the Museum’s own possessions. The masks are to be shown in groups according to use. The exhibition will run from Tuesday, October 24th, to Monday, January 1st.
Following will be a watercolor exhibition which will form a memorial to both George Pearse Ennis and Paul L. Gill. This will be shown from Saturday, November 4th, through Sunday, November 26th. This is the last opening scheduled for the calendar year. After the first of the year on Wednesday, January 17th, there will be an extensive showing of the work of Eastman Johnson to run through Sunday, February 25th. Work has been under way for several months to collect examples of this painter that have not been shown before.
On February 9th an exhibition of etchings by Rodolphe Bresdin will be put on view through Sunday, March 31st.
The second large exhibition of the year will be a complete costume show, drawn, as the mask exhibition will be, principally from the Museum’s own collection. This exhibition will open on Tuesday, March 12th, and continue through Sunday, May 5th.
The last exhibition to open this season according to the present schedule will be that of Brooklyn Artists, which will be on view from Friday, April 5th, to Sunday, the 28th. From time to time there will be small special exhibitions that will take form during the season.
LIST BELOW, ABOVE INFORMATION IN TABULAR FORM
Style Foundations---Corsets and Fashions of Yesterday and Today. September 9th through October 1st.
Photographs by George B. Brainard. “Long Island in the 70s.” September 22nd through October 8th.
Putnam Memorial Print Exhibition. October 7th through October 29th.
Recent Accessions. October 14th through October 29th.
Masks, October 24th through January 1st.
George Pearse Ennis and Paul L. Gill Watercolor Exhibition. November 4th through November 26th.
Eastman Johnson Exhibition. January 17th through February 25th.
Rodolphe Bresdin Exhibition. February 9th through March 31st.
Costume Show. March 12th through May 5th.
Brooklyn Artists. April 5th through April 28th.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1939 - 1941. 07-09/1939, 204-5. View Original
September 21, 1939
A Print Room exhibition showing a cross section of the print collection of the Brooklyn Museum will be put on view Saturday, October 7th, to run through Sunday, October 29th. It will be called “The Putnam Memorial Print Exhibition” as the largest group by one artist in the show will be etchings by Rembrandt collected by. Mr. and Mrs. Wil1iam A. Putnam and now the property of the Museum. Mrs. Putnam made the Museum’s Print Room and its facilities possible by a gift of funds for the purpose as a memorial to her husband. The forthcoming exhibition will be the Print Room’s second anniversary.
This cross section will consist for the greater part of XIXth and XXth Century prints, but there will be milestones of the preceding periods beginning with the Museum’s Rembrandts. These with the bulk of the exhibition will be shown in the Balcony Gallery. There will also be a few followers of Rembrandt, Italian and Spanish Baroque masters, such as Ribera, Tiepolo and Canaletto. This work along with the Goyas will lead to the beginning of the XIXth Century Impressionist movement. The Goyas shown will be from one of the finest sets of Los Caprichos that exists. The binding in which the set was bound, together with the finest of the impressions, will be on view.
There will also be early and late lithographs and wood engravings by Honore Daumier and one of the large lithographs by Manet. The XVIIIth Century English School will he represented by some exceptionally fine engraver’s proofs of mezzotints by Green, Earlom and others, given to the Museum by Mrs. Joseph Epes Brown in 1918.
French impressionists and post-impressionists will be included, and the German School, which has recently been much discussed under the label “degenerate art”, will be represented in sufficient quantity to make study possible. Examples of abstract art are to be represented by a number of prints which show characteristic contemporary trends in experiments with new media and the modern illustrated book stressed, as many of the great contemporary artists have done some of their best graphic work for books. Among the editions, a few of those issued by the late Ambroise Vollard will be exhibited.
In another gallery, called the Print Gallery, there will be a small, choice showing of modern drawings including Van Gogh’s highly finished study for the “Cypresses,” a Cezanne landscape and “Head of a Boy” by Picasso.
(The Museum is most easily reached from Manhattan by the I.R.T. Subway, The Broadway (West Side) line goes directly to the Brooklyn Museum-Eastern Parkway Station. By the Lexington (East Side) line, change at Nevins Street for a West Side train across same platform. Running time approx4mately 30 minutes from Times Square and Grand Central.)
The Museum is open daily throughout the year 10 to 5; Sundays, 1 to 5. Mondays and Fridays, adults 25 cents, children 10 cents; other days free.
CURRENT EVENTS FOR CALENDAR EDITOR
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1939 - 1941. 07-09/1939, 215-6. View Original
September 21, 1939
A Print Room exhibition showing a cross section of the print collection of the Brooklyn Museum will be put on view Saturday, October 7th, to run through Sunday, October 29th. It will be called “The Putnam Memorial Print Exhibition” as the largest group by one artist in the show will be etchings by Rembrandt collected by. Mr. and Mrs. Wil1iam A. Putnam and now the property of the Museum. Mrs. Putnam made the Museum’s Print Room and its facilities possible by a gift of funds for the purpose as a memorial to her husband. The forthcoming exhibition will be the Print Room’s second anniversary.
This cross section will consist for the greater part of XIXth and XXth Century prints, but there will be milestones of the preceding periods beginning with the Museum’s Rembrandts. These with the bulk of the exhibition will be shown in the Balcony Gallery. There will also be a few followers of Rembrandt, Italian and Spanish Baroque masters, such as Ribera, Tiepolo and Canaletto. This work along with the Goyas will lead to the beginning of the XIXth Century Impressionist movement. The Goyas shown will be from one of the finest sets of Los Caprichos that exists. The binding in which the set was bound, together with the finest of the impressions, will be on view.
There will also be early and late lithographs and wood engravings by Honore Daumier and one of the large lithographs by Manet. The XVIIIth Century English School will he represented by some exception¬ally fine engraver’s proofs of mezzotints by Green, Earlom and others, given to the Museum by Mrs. Joseph Epes Brown in 1918.
French impressionists and post-impressionists will be included, and the German School, which has recently been much discussed under the label “degenerate art”, will be represented in sufficient quantity to make study possible. Examples of abstract art are to be represented by a number of prints which show characteristic contemporary trends in experiments with new media and the modern illustrated book stressed, as many of the great contemporary artists have done some of their best graphic work for books. Among the editions, a few of those issued by the late Ambroise Vollard will be exhibited.
In another gallery, called the Print Gallery, there will be a small, choice showing of modern drawings including Van Gogh’s highly finished study for the “Cypresses,” a Cezanne landscape and “Head of a Boy” by Picasso.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1939 - 1941. 09-10/1939, 224. View Original
October 7, 1939
Arrangements for reviewers:
It will be possible to see the above exhibition in frames along the wall, or possibly hung, Tuesday morning, October 3rd. Catalogue lists will also be available then. The exhibition opens Saturday, October 7th.
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