Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . cess, it affords•on that very account room for self-expression at every stageof its progress. At each step of advance toward the finishedpicture—drawing, biting, wiping the plate, printing—thereis room for the exercise of choice and skill, of technical mas-tery, decisive taking and refusing, and even f(n- happy ac-cident. Processes do not matter, we say, ])ut witli etchingthe process, so exacting and yet so flexible, becomes a meanstoward some delightful and individual result. There islittle danger, if the variety of this exhibition may ])e trusted,that the etching
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . cess, it affords•on that very account room for self-expression at every stageof its progress. At each step of advance toward the finishedpicture—drawing, biting, wiping the plate, printing—thereis room for the exercise of choice and skill, of technical mas-tery, decisive taking and refusing, and even f(n- happy ac-cident. Processes do not matter, we say, ])ut witli etchingthe process, so exacting and yet so flexible, becomes a meanstoward some delightful and individual result. There islittle danger, if the variety of this exhibition may ])e trusted,that the etching of the future in America may become theslave of even great traditions. It is still alive, curiously in-terested in the world, youthful and ready to learn. Thesemen and women are for the most part already standing ontheir own feet and looking with their own eyes for theirown vision of order, power and beauty in a world that offerswide varieties of suggestion, discovery, experience and ad-venturous delight. I. O. R. 101. The Franco-Belgian Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum THE Coniiuittee of the Brooklyn Museum desires torecord its grateful acknowledgment of the kind officesof His Excellency the French Ambassador, of Mr. A. Tir-man, Commissioner General of France to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and especially of Mr. Jean Guiffrey, theFrench Art Commissioner, in making it possible to placebefore the public of the City of New York the comprehen-sive collection of French art works which so magnificentlyrepresented France at the Panama-Pacific the personal and enthusiastic efforts of ]Mr. Guif-frey the project could not have been achieved. Introductiox to the CatalogueThe American public owes to the French governmentthe opportunity of enjoying the collection of Frenchart placed on exhibition at the Brooklyn IVIuseum on Febru-ary fifth. Selected from distinguished sources it is an ex-hibition admirably representative of painting and sculptureof our immediate
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