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Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . c these masters who already enjoy its appreciation in suchfull measure that we cannot think of the hospitality withwhich they are received in many public and private galleriesof the Xew World without a feeling of sincere know how America values the works of our great na-tional artists. If things go on as they do, shall we not soonbe obliged to go to America to study French art ? It is the ambition of Frenchmen, especially at this time,to have French art recognized for its artistic cohesion, funda-mental honesty, racial probity, its love and worship of t
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . c these masters who already enjoy its appreciation in suchfull measure that we cannot think of the hospitality withwhich they are received in many public and private galleriesof the Xew World without a feeling of sincere know how America values the works of our great na-tional artists. If things go on as they do, shall we not soonbe obliged to go to America to study French art ? It is the ambition of Frenchmen, especially at this time,to have French art recognized for its artistic cohesion, funda-mental honesty, racial probity, its love and worship of truthwhich illumines with the light of day what is termed thedivine illusion of art. A professor from beyond the Rhine some years ago onthe occasion of an exhibition of paintings in Chicago underthe patronage of the Kaiser was striving to prove that theday of the French Schook whatever its past had been, wasover, and that its educational mission now passed to the new,healthier, stronger, more energetic German School. But 110. THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWNPainting on watered silk, XVIII Century, in the Collection of French Art at the Brooklyn MuseumLent by the French Gcvernment
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