Fifty Prints of the YearSecond Annual Exhibition

During the twelve months ending with October, 1926, the first “Fifty Prints of the Year” exhibition was seen in thirty cities. The welcome everywhere accorded to it seems abundantly to justify a continuation of the policy which distinguishes this from other annual print exhibitions; namely, the giving of equal recognition to prints of the “modern” or post-Impressionist school and to those of the academic or conservative or representative school.

With pictures of the latter type the world has been familiar since the days of Rembrandt; while “modern” art, a search for creative form against representation, is a development of only the past forty years. The sincerity of the work of the abler artists of the new school, however, as well as this work’s stimulating vitality, are such that, even within this short period, the “modern movement” has profoundly altered the art ideas of western civilization…

Arranged by William C Magee