In recent years American painting has enjoyed one of the most lively,
interesting, and deserved revivals in the art world. Museums all over
the country have rediscovered, dusted off, and added to their American
collections, installed them handsomely, and presented them in numerous
worthwhile exhibitions, thereby helping to reopen the eyes of Americans
to an immensely appealing and important part of their artistic heritage.
Although art museums have good reason to be pleased with this activity,
it should be remembered that private collectors have often been the
pioneer reviving force in American art. They, through their enthusiasm
and acumen, have shown the way for the museums. Currently
nineteenth-century painting is probably the most restudied and
sought-after American art, and the work produced by the last generation
of that century and first two decades of the twentieth—impressionist and
realist pictures—has begun to receive particular attention. Margaret
and Raymond Horowitz, as a result of their perceptive collecting, have
been primary leaders of the large and ever-growing group that
appreciates the lyric beauty of this work. The Horowitzes have collected
examples in painting and drawing of the highest quality, which, brought
together in this exhibition, isolate some of the most noticeable
characteristics of the art of the period—quietude, simplicity, delicacy,
and intimacy. The consistent quality of the Horowitz collection is a
remarkable accomplishment and a tribute to the collectors' knowledge and
taste. The Metropolitan Museum is grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Horowitz for
sharing with the public what they have achieved as collectors of
American art.
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