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n spite of the enormous First institution of its kind with living artists and those
literature devoted to the In United States has Sim- of the very recent past it is
fine arts, in spite of the pUfied research Into picto- an inevitable consequence
modern method of scholarly rial art history that the farther back in
examination and exposition 1 point of time the amateur
of the arts of the past, the BERNARD TEBVAN
or scholar goes in his re-
study of this branch of searches in art the greater
man's activities is still laborious and often baffling, the difficulties he meets with in obtaining the
Amateur or scholar meets with many impediments facts he desires.
in tracing even the complete work of an artist of Art scholarship in our country has been mak-
his own time and his own country, checks that ing progress, and in some eases very marked prog-
would appear incredible to the layman who has ress, under handicaps so discouragingly weighty
never gone through this experience. Since such as to speak well for the fortitude and application of
obstacles are constantly met with in connection those engaged in it. In the past benefactions were
one sixty-six
DECEMBER I 92 5
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FRICK ART REFERENCE LIBRARY
Fvick "Art Reference Lib vary
i
n spite of the enormous First institution of its kind with living artists and those
literature devoted to the In United States has Sim- of the very recent past it is
fine arts, in spite of the pUfied research Into picto- an inevitable consequence
modern method of scholarly rial art history that the farther back in
examination and exposition 1 point of time the amateur
of the arts of the past, the BERNARD TEBVAN
or scholar goes in his re-
study of this branch of searches in art the greater
man's activities is still laborious and often baffling, the difficulties he meets with in obtaining the
Amateur or scholar meets with many impediments facts he desires.
in tracing even the complete work of an artist of Art scholarship in our country has been mak-
his own time and his own country, checks that ing progress, and in some eases very marked prog-
would appear incredible to the layman who has ress, under handicaps so discouragingly weighty
never gone through this experience. Since such as to speak well for the fortitude and application of
obstacles are constantly met with in connection those engaged in it. In the past benefactions were
one sixty-six
DECEMBER I 92 5