Excerpt from Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol. 19: Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, July 1915 Furthermore. The indicated qualities of his intensely personal view point found application equally well in mural paintings, - his decora tions in the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and the series Evolution of the Book in the Library of Congress. Speaking of his Pittsburgh decorations, C. H. Galiin wrote: they are unequivocally modern, which coincides with W. S. Howard's remark of Alexander's art in general, that with him poetic sentiment and the spirit of modernity show no inconsistency. He sees beneath the dull crust of life, and familiar things take on a new and finer meaning. And in this strain one recalls the statement that while here he was once considered essentially French in his tendencies, in Paris he was looked upon as typically American. Perhaps we may ascribe to this Americanism the easy turn to stage scenery designing a few years ago (for and furthermore the inventiveness which produced a new form of scenery, compact and light, doing away with wood and other heavy material. There is more. As Miss E. L. Cary has put it: The place filled by Mr. Alexander in the art life of America was far more important than is indicated by his accomplishment in painting, graceful and digni fied as that accomplishment is. His relation to his fellow artists and absorption in their welfare, his interest in art education in the public schools and in the use of museums by the children of America, his efforts toward amalgamating true culture with the democratic ideal, all are elements in his influence which has been widely exercised in his own country. Parenthetically one may note also the fact that all this was accomplished by one who shared with Whistler the sensibility of a too fragile physical endowment. 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.