Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings and of the Permanent Collection: July, August, September, 1917 The majority of the canvases constituting this collection have been seledted from the three leading exhibitions of the past seaso-n, - those of the ico-rco'ran Gallery of Art, Washington, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and, the National Academy of Design, New York. 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.