Mrs. Anna Coleman Ladd
Mr. A. Phimister Proctor
Mr. Arthur Putnam
Mr. Henry K. Bush-Brown
Mrs. Edith Barretto Parsons
Mrs. Margaret French Cresson
Miss Grace Mott Johnson
An Appreciation
An Exhibition of the works of Mr. John Sargent is the most important event of the kind that could at this moment happen anywhere, as he is the foremost living painter in the world. So far as one can judge the work of a contemporary, one is justified in predicting immortality for these compositions. Sargent belongs among the great portrait painters of all time, his pictures revealing the mysterious but unmistakable stamp of genius. In fact, everything he does shows this quality, which makes his painting the envy of competitors, and the pride and glory of American art. He has no successful living rival, but is in a class by himself. So true is this, that if I were asked to name the greatest living American, I should unhesitatingly name John Singer Sargent.
This Exhibition is for the benefit of the Endowment Fund of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, with which Mr. Sargent has from the beginning been in active cooperation.