In general, artists and arts organizations will be selected for available studio space based
upon their artistic merit, artistic discipline and commitment, as well as contribution to the diversity of media, style and discipline representation in the Center.
Taken as a whole, the exhibition is a clean, a strong, and a varied one and of vast
artistic, educational interest and importance, and, if I mistake not, will have as a result, and despite the unquestionably skeptical and even hostile attitude towards the
merits of the new foreign movements, or an indisposition to accept them as being worthy of the title of art movements in general — the most marked effect
upon the cause of art in America, and
upon the coming production of American painters and sculptors, than anything that has occurred since the first exhibition of the so - called Munich band of young American painters in the old American art galleries in 1878, and of the work of Monet and his contemporaries and followers held here in 1883.