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John Singer Sargent

RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF IMPORTANT WORKS
of
John Singer Sargent
FEBRUARY 23RD
to
MARCH 22ND
1924

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GRAND CENTRAL ART GALLERIES

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL

[TAXICAB ENTRANCE]

15 VANDERBILT AVENUE NEW YORK CITY

GRAND CENTRAL ART GALLERIES

15 Vanderbilt Avenue

New York City

TRUSTEES

John G. Agar

Walter L. Clark

William A. Delano

Irving T. Bush

Robert W. DeForest

Walter S. Gifford

Frank G. Logan

OFFICERS

President	Walter L. Clark
Vice President	Robert W. DeForest
Secretary and Treasurer	Walter S. Gifford

FOREWORD

The Painters and Sculptors Association is a non-profit-bearing organization established solely to further interest in American Art, and to increase the sales of the work of the living American Painter and Sculptor. The Association is one of contributing artist members and subscribing lay-members, numbering about one hundred and fifty each. This membership is not local; the artists are from various regions extending from coast to coast, while the lay-group is composed of those interested in Art in all of the larger cities of the United States, and including Presidents and Vice-Presidents of ten of the great Museums, together with many officers and directors of these Institutions. There are representatives from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Rochester, Buffalo, Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Norfolk, Atlanta, Montclair, Newark, Cleveland, Canton, Dayton, Akron, Aurora, Chicago, Moline, Rockford, Joliet, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco. This makes of the Painters and Sculptors Association a national organization in its extent and far-reaching in its interest. This makes it a clearing house and not merely a local sales place.

According to the plan of the organization of the Painters and Sculptors Association, each of the lay-members has pledged an annual subscription of six-hundred dollars for three years, thus providing for that period a subsidy. Each of the artist members presents to the association, as his membership fee, one of his works a year, for three years, this period having been agreed upon as a proper duration to test the practicability of the plan. At the end of the year each of the lay-members has the privilege of receiving one of the works of the Artist members.

Delano and Aldrich, architects, have designed and planned the Galleries, numbering at present fourteen. The galleries as they are now open to the public constitute the largest and handsomest salesrooms in either Europe or America, and there is no other place where the work of so many American artists can be seen or where the exhibit can constantly rotate and yet maintain its high standard of excellence. In the eleven months during which they have operated they have been visited by over 110,000 people. In this time it has been demonstrated conclusively that a sales place may partake of the excellence of standard, the beauty of installation, the atmosphere, the character, and the dignity of a modern museum and yet impart quite another form of message. Ownership, and the joy of possession, are the elements in the psychology of the Painters and Sculptors Association.

The Association is under the direction of seven men who are nationally known as business executives, and who contribute their time and experience absolutely without remuneration.

The sales during the past months have been most encouraging. A number of portrait commissions have been placed, while important paintings and bronzes were installed in leading museums.

The First Annual Exhibition, and several of the series of one-man exhibitions have been given and will be followed by more. Several out-of-town exhibitions have been held, when the number of sales was most flattering. Pictures were assembled and shipped from this gallery to Rome. Assistance was rendered the National Academy of Design, the Corcoran Biennial, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh in their exhibitions this season.

LAY MEMBERS

NEW YORK CITY

Mr. John G. Agar

Mr. Bartlett Arkell

Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham

Mr. John Mc E. Bowman

Mr. Irving T. Bush

Mr. Gale Carter

Mrs. Joseph H. Choate

Miss Mabel Choate

Mr. Walter L. Clark

Mr. Wm. H. Clarke

Mrs. Otto Kahn

Mr. L. A. Osborne

Mr. George Foster Peabody

Mrs. Willard Straight

Mr. H. B. Thayer

Mr. Hector W. Thomas

Mr. Louis C. Tiffany

Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt

Mr. Felix Warburg

Mr. Paul Warburg

Mr. E. E. Bartlett

Mr. L. M. Boomer

Mrs. Clarkson Cowl

Mr. William A. Delano

Engineer’s Club

Mr. Victor Guinzburg

Mr. Henry W. Cannon

Mr. William H. Davis

Mr. Robert W. DeForest

Mr. Daniel Chester French

Mr. Henry J. Fuller

Mr. Walter S. Gifford

Mr. Joseph P. Grace

Mr. John R. Gregg

Mrs. E. H. Harriman

Mr. August Heckscher

Mr. Archer M. Huntington

CHICAGO, ILL.

Mr. Albert Brunker

Mr. Edward B. Butler

Mr. R. T. Crane, Jr.

Mr. Bernard A. Eckhart

Mr. Percy B. Eckhart

Mr. William O. Goodman

Mr. E. T. Gundlach

Mr. Charles L. Hutchinson

Mrs. John E. Jenkins

Mr. William V. Kelley

Mr. R. P. Lamont

Mr. Frank G. Logan

Mr. Potter Palmer

Mr. Julius Rosenwald

Mr. Martin A. Ryerson

Mr. E. F. Selz

Mr. B. E. Sunny

Mr. Harold H. Swift

Mr. L. L. Valentine

Mr. Charles H. Worcester

Mr. Charles A. Munroe

BOSTON, MASS.

General Butler Ames

Mrs. Oakes Ames

Dr. Richard C. Cabot

Mr. William A. Gaston

Mr. John Singer Sargent

Mr. Edward C. Storrow

NEWARK, N. J.

Mr. Joseph S. Isidor

Mr. Louis Bamberger

MONTCLAIR, N. J.

Mrs. Henry Lang

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Mr. Morris R. Bockius

Mrs. Charles Heber Clark

Mr. W. M. Elkins

Mr. William P. Gest

Mr. Samuel Rea

Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury

HAZELTON, PA.

Mr. Alvan Markle, Jr.

ST. LOUIS, MO.

Mr. William K. Bixby

Mr. Edward A. Faust

Mr. Edward Mallinckrodt

Mr. Wallace D. Simmons

AURORA, ILLINOIS

Mr. Frederick G. Adamson

Mr. James M. Cowan

Captain J. F. Harral

Mr. David B. Piersen

Mr. Albert M. Snook

Mr. Wiley W. Stephens

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Mr. Charles C. Glover

Mr. James E. Parmelee

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Major E. B. Stahlman

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

Mrs. John N. Carey

Friends of American Art

Miss Lucy M. Taggart

Mrs. Thomas Taggart

Mrs. H. B. Burnet

ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS

Mrs. William Hinchliff

Mrs. D. M. Keith

Mrs. George D. Roper

Dr. Louis A. Shultz

AKRON, OHIO

Mr. Edwin C. Shaw

MILLBROOK, N. Y.

Mrs. Walter S. Beck

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

Mr. E. L. Carpenter

Mr. John R. VanDerlip

JOLIET, ILLINOIS

Mr. Theodore Gerlach

BUFFALO, N. Y.

Mr. Charles Clifton

KEWANEE, ILLINOIS

Mr. W. H. Lyman

KANSAS CITY, MO.

Mr. Albert R. Jones

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

Mrs. William Sloane

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Mr. Paul R. Mabury

DUBUQUE, IOWA

Mr. W. H. Klauer

PITTSBURGH, PA.

Miss Helen C. Frick

Mr. Howard Heinz

CLEVELAND, OHIO

Mr. Salmon P. Halle

Mr. Samuel Mather

Mr. J. H. Wade

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

Mr. Edsel B. Ford

Mr. Richard H. Webber

ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Mr. George Eastman

MILWAUKEE, WISC.

Mr. Ernest Copeland

Mr. William H. Schuchardt

Mr. Walter W. Lange

DAYTON, OHIO

Mr. J. B. Hayward

BALTIMORE, MD.

Mr. Van Lear Black

DULUTH, MINN.

Mr. George P. Tweed

CANTON, OHIO

Mr. Wendell Herbruck

Mr. William S. Kinney

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Mr. J. J. Haverty

DENVER, COLORADO

Mrs. Junius Flagg Brown

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.

Mr. Templeton Crocker

MOLINE, ILLINOIS

Mrs. Burton F. Peek

ST. PAUL, MINN.

Mr. Louis W. Hill

TOLEDO, OHIO

Mr. Edward Drummond Libbey

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

Honorable Robert Woods Bliss

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

Mr. John Hill Morgan

WHIDBY ISLAND, WASHINGTON

Mr. Frank J. Pratt, Jr.

PAINTER MEMBERS

Mr. John Singer Sargent

Mr. Charles W. Hawthorne

Mr. Frederick Ballard Williams

Mr. Chauncey F. Ryder

Mr. Frank W. Benson

Mr. Edwin Blashfield

Mr. W. Elmer Schofield

Mr. Oliver Dennett Grover

Mr. Edmund Greacen

Miss Helen Turner

Mr. Gardner Symons

Mr. Ezra Winter

Mr. Irving R. Wiles

Mr. John C. Johansen

M. Jean McLane

Mr. Daniel Garber

Mr. R. Sloan Bredin

Mr. Elliott Daingerfield

Miss Felicie Waldo Howell

Mr. Ernest Ipsen

Mr. Murray P. Bewley

Mr. Francis C. Jones

Mr. Harry Watrous

Mr. George Elmer Browne

Mr. Edward H. Potthast

Mr. Albert Groll

Mr. Frederick J. Waugh

Mr. Ralph Clarkson

Mr. Leopold Seyffert

Mr. John Sloan

Miss Cecilia Beaux

Mr. Roy Brown

Mr. E. Irving Couse

Miss Lillian Genth

Mr. Douglas Volk

Mr. G. Glenn Newell

Mr. Charles Warren Eaton

Mr. Harry A. Vincent

Mr. Victor Higgins

Mr. Leon Gaspard

Mr. Wilson Irvine

Mr. Charles H. Woodbury

Mr. George H. Hallowell

Mr. Birge Harrison

Mr. H. Dudley Murphy

Mr. Karl Anderson

Mr. Leslie P. Thompson

Mr. Charles Hopkinson

Mr. Philip L. Hale

Mrs. Lilian Westcott Hale

Mr. Cullen Yates

Mr. Ernest L. Blumenschein

Mr. Guy Wiggins

Mr. William Wendt

Mr. Ivan G. Olinsky

Mr. Henry W. Parton

Mr. Robert W. Chanler

Mr. Walter Ufer

Mr. Edward C. Volkert

Mr. Hobart Nichols

Mr. Alson Skinner Clark

Mr. Max Bohm (deceased)

Mr. Henry R. Rittenberg

Mr. Eugene F. Savage

Mr. John Noble

Miss Anna Fisher

Mr. John R. Folinsbee

Mr. Karl A. Buehr

Mr. Van Dearing Perrine

Mr. William Baxter Closson

Mr. Albert Sterner

Mr. Charles H. Davis

Mr. Paul Dougherty

Mr. Ben Foster

Mr. Charles S. Chapman

Mr. Louis Ritman

Mr. Putnam Brinley

Mr. Charles Morris Young

Mr. Wayman Adams

Mr. John F. Carlson

Mr. Henry B. Snell

Mr. Hugh Breckenridge

Mr. Paul King

Mr. Henry O. Tanner

Mr. Horatio Walker