Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWNPainting on watered silk, XVIII Century, in the Collection of French Art at the Brooklyn MuseumLent by the French Gcvernment. t E the same l)lood runs in the followers and heirs of the psy-chology of Puvis de Chavannes and Rodin as in the soldiersof Joffre. America knows how they will respond. Further-more, it cannot forget that the initiators of what came todevelop into a flourishing National American School, theLa Farges and the Saint Gaudcns, were descendants ofFrench people, that the immortal AVhistler was proud ofhis French training, that
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWNPainting on watered silk, XVIII Century, in the Collection of French Art at the Brooklyn MuseumLent by the French Gcvernment. t E the same l)lood runs in the followers and heirs of the psy-chology of Puvis de Chavannes and Rodin as in the soldiersof Joffre. America knows how they will respond. Further-more, it cannot forget that the initiators of what came todevelop into a flourishing National American School, theLa Farges and the Saint Gaudcns, were descendants ofFrench people, that the immortal AVhistler was proud ofhis French training, that George Inness, William MorrisHunt, Winslow Homer, and their fellows have been glad toacknowledge their indebtedness to our Theodore Rousseaus,our ^Millets, our Courbets, and that, in this fact and in manyothers of more recent date, there is close relation betweenthe art of America and of France. Thus, let this limited selection of French works of artrecall to our American friends the names of our INIastersallied to theirs by such bonds of sympathy; let it remindthem of those fruitful struggles, glorious conflicts, happyvictories, of those new embellishments for the gra
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