Mr. Herbert Adams Mr. Robert Aitken Mr. Daniel Chester French Mrs. Anna Hyatt Huntington Miss Malvina Hoffman Mr. Chester Beach Mr. Frederick MacMonnies Mrs. Evelyn B. Longman Batchelder Mr. James E. Fraser Mr. Lorado Taft Mr. Sherry Fry Mr. Edward McCartan Mr. Cyrus E. Dallin Mrs. Bessie Potter Vonnoh Mr. Attilio Piccirilli Miss Janet Scudder Mrs. Laura Gardin Fraser Mr. Albin Polasek Miss Harriet W. Frishmuth Mr. Mario Korbel Mr. Mahonri Young Mr. John Gregory Mr. Victor Salvatore Miss Renee Prahar Mr. Gutzon Borglum Mr. Paul Jennewein Mr. R. Tait McKenzie Mr. Edward Berge Mrs. Lucy Perkins Ripley 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. William Lyon Phelps “_Masters of American Paintings_” _Charles Caffin_ _Courtesy of Doubleday Page & Company, 1902_