The artists featured in the exhibition include Dwight W. Tryon, Thomas W. Dewing, and James A. McNeill Whistler.
“The American Water Color Society organized in New York in 1866 is the representative organization of American Painters in Water Color” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Academy Notes)
“The men of Glasgow school are especially noteworthy for their strength and refinement in color, their keen appreciation of values; and the feelings for decorative qualities which they involve in their work. They are not copyists of Nature; from nature they obtain impressions and suggestions, and upon these they graft much of themselves-and the result is their very own.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“All the pictures in the collection are from the studios of Buffalo artists, who are represented more generally and adequately than in previous exhibitions.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Early in his career, Mr. Chapman turned his attention to the study, representation, and interpretation of the sea and of ships. He has concerned himself with the moods of the sea and the sky, under sunshine, clouds, calm, and storm. He has informed himself regarding naval architecture and the equipment of ships from the earliest times to the present. Navel engagements have had a great fascination for him, and some of his best pictures have been representations of historic sea-fights.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Mr. Smith’s work is characterized by the utmost simplicity and directness in expression. He sees clearly, grasps the salient points of a subject quickly and, with wonderful technical facility, paints his picture while the first impression and the enthusiasm evoked by his theme retain their freshness. In composition, his works invariably are effective and show excellent artistic balance. He has a knack for choosing attractive subjects and of presenting them so that the observer sees them as the artist himself has seen them. His pictures are bright, cheerful, often captivating, and are true to nature and to locality.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“This is the first series of exhibitions which it is hoped may be organized annually for the benefit of the Members and Associate-Members of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and other various visitors to the Albright Art Gallery, and for the advantage of the artist-contributors. It is the aim, in forming these collections, to exemplify the best achievements of the American painters of today; to show those works which, in future, will be regarded as the representative productions of the present period, and to afford appreciative amateurs opportunity to acquire paintings worthy of place in any collection.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“This collection of pictures was formed to serve a number of art museums working in conjunction. The director of the Albright Art Gallery was chosen to organize the collection and selected most of the works here shown from the Annual Exhibition of American Water Color Society held in New York last Spring. Most of the works are by Members of the Society. These pictures have already been shown in St. Louis, will be exhibited in Buffalo during the month of November, and from here those not sold will go to Detroit, to be exhibited in the Art Museum there.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Walter Launt Palmer was born at Albany, NY, 1854. He was a pupil of Frederick E. Church, at Hudson, NY, and of Carolus-Durn, Paris. Member of the National Academy, the American Water Color Society and the New York Water Color Club.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“It was the aim to organize a collection of approximately one hundred pictures to exemplify, as nearly as possible, the best work of contemporary German painters-particularly those men whose work shows the more modern methods of expression. The collection, as a whole, does not represent all the phases of contemporary German art. The artists whose works are included in the exhibition represent many cities of Germany; among them, Berlin, Munich, Dusseldorf, Dresden, Konigsberg, Weimar, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, and some of the smaller cities and towns.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“The pictures comprising the collection have been selected from the studies made directly from Nature by Mr. Beck during a Sojourn of several months in Europe in the summer of 1906.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
"Genjiro Yeto was born in Japan in 1867. He came to America in 1891 and became a pupil of the Art Students’ League and of john H. Twachtman, New York. He is a member of the New York Water Color Club.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Both as an illustrator and as a painter of mural decorations - to which field of art his technique admirably is suited - Mr. Guerin shows strong individuality and great poetic charm.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“The pastels representing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius- which Mr. Coleman groups together under the general title “Songs of Vesuvius”- were made from the window of Mr. Coleman’s studio, some nine miles distant from the volcano, and present a fascinating variety of momentary effects of light and color of exquisite beauty.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“He studied at the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and at the Academie Julien, Paris, under Jean Paul Laurens. He is a member of the Copley Society, Boston, and the New York Water Color Club.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“He went to Europe in 1878, and the following year, before entering school in Paris, exhibited a painting at the Salon which was given a place of honor and was purchased by the French Government. His exhibit in 1889 received honorable Mention and also was purchased by the French Government.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts and under Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury, Paris.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“He studied in l’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and under J.L. Gerome; also, in the Colarossi and Julian Schools in Paris, under Boulanger and Lefebure. He spent five years in France, painting in Paris, Normandy, and Brittany. Upon his return to America, in 1892, he accompanied the Peary Relief Expedition, under Prof. A. Heilprin, to the Arctic regions, and the following year accompanied Peary as the artist of the North Greenland Expedition.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Robert W. Vonnoh and in Paris under Prinet and Girardot. Pictures by him have been purchased by the Hungarian National Gallery at Budapest.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Mr. Smith’s work is characterized by the utmost simplicity and directness in expression. He sees clearly, grasps the salient points of a subject quickly and, with wonderful technical facility, paints his picture while the first impression and the enthusiasm evoked by his theme retain their freshness. He has painted in almost every country in the World.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“He studied at the Art Students’ League, New York, and, later, in Paris under Whistler, Prinet, and Fremiet.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“In the organization of this collection, the Spring exhibitions of American pictures in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington were visited, and those works considered most meritorious were invited. Other pictures - among them several now shown for the first time - were obtained from the studios of the artists - selected from among all the works available for exhibition.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“There is scarcely another artist living who draws with such sureness and with such delightful spontaneity and purity of line. His work is charming and in its simplicity. His compositions are admirable in their balance and are exquisite in their refined, beautiful, harmonious coloring.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“This collection of carefully selected photographs is intended to demonstrate the fact that photography may be considered an art when it expresses the work of an artist. The choice of subject, the matter of composition, effects of light and shadow and subordination of unnecessary detail are matters which can be governed absolutely by the artistic photographer-partly in making the negative and partly in the process of printing. It is quite possible for a man of artistic feeling to give a subjective impression of Nature through the aid of the camera. The Photo-Pictorialists of Buffalo, organized in April, 1906, comprises only eight members, all represented in this exhibit.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“This loan exhibition of paintings, owned by residents of Buffalo – works, for the most part, purchased since the year 1900, including the period of the Pan-American Exposition- gives evidence not only of the interest in art which has been manifested by citizens of Buffalo during recent years, but indicates also the catholicity and the high standard of taste which have dominated their selections. It is believed that this exhibition will have much to do in increasing popular interest in art in Buffalo, and that it may arouse a worthy spirit of emulation in the direction of the acquisition of art works of merit.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“In order that the citizens of Buffalo might be kept in touch with the native and foreign art movements of our time, it has been the policy of the Director of the Albright Art Gallery to organize annually, two principal exhibitions: the first, an exhibition of selected paintings by American Artists, calculated to exemplify the highest phase of contemporary art expression in the United States; and the second to represent, as adequately as possible, some important and distinctive school of foreign art expression. The collection of paintings by the French Impressionists – a school of modern art expression which, while revolutionary in many of its phases, has had greater influence upon the world than any other specific art movement recorded in history.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“This third exhibition of selected water colors by American artists was formed, like that of last year, to serve a number of art institutions working in conjunction. The larger portion of the exhibit consists of pictures selected from the Annual Exhibition of the American Water Color Society held in New York City in the spring of 1907. From Buffalo the collection will be sent to Toledo, where it will be exhibited in the Museum of Art in that city.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
Hugh H. Breckenridge studied in the school of the Pennsylvania Academy at Philadelphia, and under Bouguereau, Ferrier, and Doucet in Paris. He was awarded a European scholarship by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and won the first Toppan Prize at that institution." (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Timothy Cole may be reckoned as the foremost engraver of the American school, and his preeminence is surely due to the flexibility of his technique, which includes with equal facility the strong features of the old and the new; relying at one time upon the efficacy of line, and at another upon the virtue of tones in masses; combining them even in the same print with a justness of equilibrium that produces always a perfectly harmonious ensemble. It is in the wonderful versatility with which he plies the cutter that the charm of his work primarily consists. Yet this skill is after all a natural outcome of the deeper gift of sympathetic understanding, which enables him to get inside the feeling of old masters, differing from one another so much in character.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Harrington Mann was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied painting in Glasgow, later in the Slade School, London, under professor Legros, and in the Julian School, Paris, under Boulanger and Lefebvre. He has made numerous visits to France, Italy, Spain, and other countries, where he has studied the works of the Old Masters and has painted the life and scenes of today as they have appealed to him. Originally identified with “the Glasgow Art movement,” during the last few years he has maintained a studio in London, where he has achieved notable success in portraiture.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“He studied at the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and at the Academie Julian, Paris, under Jean Paul Laurens. The exhibition of a collection of Mr. Murphy’s pictures at the Albright Art Gallery last year was one of the notable successes of the year.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Miss Roberts manifests in her studies an uncommon degree of scholarly invention and shows rare facility in decorative composition combined with sensitive expression of emotional life. Her work impresses one as the spontaneous artistic utterance of a temperament, the impulses of which are stamped by a new real mental quality.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“It remained for an artist working with the camera to come to the front and avail himself the opportunity offered by the American Indian- almost at the the last moment, but still in time- and to make a series of photographs covering almost every existing tribe, portraying hundreds of various types of character and illustrating methods of life, tribal customs, religious observances, hunting scenes, war dances, etc. He is an artist who works out of doors and not in the closet. He is a close observer, whose qualities of mind and body fit him to make his observations out in the field, surrounded by the wild life he commemorates. He has lived on intimate terms with many different tribes of the mountains and the plains. He knows them as they hunt, as they travel, as they go about their various avocations on the march and in the camp. He has not only seen their vigorous outward existence, but has caught glimpses, such as few white men ever catch, into that strange spiritual and mental life of theirs, from whose innermost recesses all white men are forever barred.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Mr. Butler is one of the few American Painters to present the beauties of California scenery to residents of the Eastern States. His canvases reproduce effects of novelty, as well as of deceiving charm.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Mr. Smith’s work is characterized by the utmost simplicity and directness in expression. No painter has better command of his chosen medium. He sees clearly, grasps the salient points of a subject quickly, and with wonderful technical facility, paints his picture while the first impression and the enthusiasm evoked by his theme retain their freshness.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Miss Crawford is a native of Buffalo, originally was a pupil of Lars G. Sellstedt, and subsequently studied in Rome and in Paris. She has painted many portraits of prominent persons in Buffalo, and many ideal figure subjects. Certain of her works suggest qualities which one finds in paintings by William M. hunt and George Fuller. She also seems to have been influenced by certain of the early Italian painters. Miss Kaan has devoted her attention especially to landscape painting, and some of her pictures which have been on view at the Albright Art Gallery have especially suggested the work of Daubigny. Her method is broad and simple; - she aims to interpret the spirit of a scene rather than to reproduce its literal details.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Born, Eckwersheim, Alsace, 1852. Studied the technique of engraving and the art of design under professors Emile Schweitzer and Becker. He is the only wood engraver who has been admitted to membership in the National Academy, New York.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“He was a pupil of Josef Isreals and B. J. Blommers, at The Hague, Holland. Most of his pictures have been painted in Holland and reflect characteristics of the Dutch School of Paintings. Examples of his work are to be found in numerous public museums and private collections.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Paul Cornoyer, New York, was born in St. Louis, MO. He was a pupil of Jules Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant, and Louis Blanc, Paris.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“George Glenn Newell, New York, was born in Berrien County, Michigan. He was a pupil of the National Academy of Design, New York, under Edgar M Ward, and Teachers’ College, Columbia University, under Will S. Robinson.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“What is known as a “Sampler” is a piece of embroidery, worsted work, or the like. Originally it was done to fix and retain a pattern considered of value. In some cases it consisted of a large piece of cloth or canvas upon which many patterns were worked side by side. Later, it became a piece of needlework intended to exhibit the skill of a beginner, and often was framed and hung up as sort of an exhibit. The collection of samplers belonging to Mr. Drake is probably the most notable of its kind in the United States. Some of the specimens shown really are works of embroiderer’s art, others are the crude, but none the less interesting, handwork of children who thus learned their first cross stitches on canvas, worked with crewels.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
“Birge Harrison, like his brother, Alexander Harrison, was first a pupil in The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and later, went to Paris, where he became a student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and a pupil of Cabanel.” (The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Notes)
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