Excerpt from The Memorial Art Gallery: Loan Exhibition of Paintings Owned by Residents of Rochester, June the Twelfth to September Seventh, Nineteen Hundred Fourteen
This first loan exhibition of paintings owned by resident of Rochester is not only interesting because it is the most notable of any yet held at the Memorial Art Gallery, but because it gives tangible evidence of the catholicity and the high standard of taste that have governed the picture lovers of this city in the purchase of works of art. Unquestionably this exhibition will do much toward stimulating and increasing a more active and popular interest in painting in Rochester. It is, too, sure to create justifiable local pride at the quality of the pictures which are lodged here.
The exhibition will establish Rochester's position in the artistic world on a new plane, for an examination of this catalogue will disclose the fact that in the collection are some of the most famous names in the history of painting. The pictures hung in the Gallery cover a wide field and a period of many years. They comprise the works of American, English, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Spanish artists, of international repute and several of whom, at least, are acknowledged to have been monarchs among painters.
To organize such a collection has been a labor not without difficulties and the directors of the Gallery wish to express their deep appreciation of the cordial co-operation of those citizens who have generously deprived their own walls, for the summer, of their highly prized canvases. It is grateful to record that the management, in compiling the exhibition, was surprised at the wealth of good pictures in the city. There were sufficient offered to make this summer exhibition an annual event for several years to come. The number chosen was limited by the available wall space in the Gallery, as it was the wish of the Director to hang the paintings, so far as possible, in one line in order to avoid the danger of crowding them, thus giving greater opportunity for an arrangement which makes for harmony in the tone relation of one picture to another.
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