Editorials and Resolutions in Memory of Samuel Putnam Avery, Born March 17th, 1823, Died August 11th, 1904 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Editorials and Resolutions: In Memory of Samuel Putnam Avery, Born March 17th, 1823, Died August 11th, 1904 It shows how little compromise the connoisseur ever made with the picture dealer, and because it illustrates that the element of personality was as strongly felt in the business man as it was later in the gentleman of refined leisure. The Avery Architectural Library at Columbia Univer sity, which was founded in memory of Mr. Avery's architect son, and chosen and catalogued in the most careful manner by the donor himself, was naturally the benefaction nearest to his heart. He made its enlargement a personal care, and found a librarian most inventive in devising helps and conveniences for the student. Every year this gift becomes more valuable. Hardly less a service to the cause of art was that of starting a print department of the New York Public Library. To this cause Mr. Avery gave the large collection of nineteenth-century etchings which he had been accumulating for forty years, and to the day of his death he made it a pleasure to add rare speci mens or to fill gaps in the portfolios. By this one donation the new department gained importance in the world of art - a reputation that subsequent gifts, prompted, no doubt, by Mr. Avery's initia tive, have further enhanced. 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.