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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the American Fine Art Section: Anglo-American Exposition, 1914 There was a time when almost all American artists studied abroad, as indeed did the majority of the students of other nationalities as well. Paris was the centre of art teaching and en couragement, Americans and Englishmen flocked to Paris, but latterly New York, like London, has evolved such excellent art schools that Paris is being Slowly dethroned from her supremacy. But the change has not yet had time to take effect. The majority of American artists are Paris trained their art is cosmopolitan but the Salons and the Royal Academy are their display grounds, not the revolutionary Shows of the Ind pendants and the Allied Artists, for the American artist is intelligently conservative, and the anarchical methods of painting, which have swept the world, have hardly touched him. A remark of Dr. Bode's made nearly twenty years ago is appli cable to-day American artists have in common the avoidance of any kind of excess. That must certainlv be the verdict of all who examine the American pictures. They are Academic in the best sense - sometimes daring, never revo lutionary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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