Excerpt from Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum: January, 1916<br><br>The result has been amazing, even to those who evolved the thought. The committee was quite unprepared for the wealth of excellent work that was submitted in answer to the invitations sent out. The number of screens originally ordered had to be doubled and more, before hanging space could be secured for all that was worthy of acceptance by a discriminating hanging committee, and the local exhibition, in point of number, if in nothing else, quite outgrew that which had suggested it. Mrs. Whitney's exhibit of seventy three pieces became but a part of a notable exhibition of three hundred and twenty-four. Numbers, not including the exhibit of crafts.<br><br>This response has been most gratifying to the committee, whose members fully appreciate the warm cordiality with which the 'artists invited to exhibit have met them and endeavored to make the event the success it has proved to be.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.