Excerpt from Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of Prints From the Clarence Buckingham Collection: January 1915 He was a lover of the Fine Arts and devoted to the advancement of the artistic life of Chicago. For thirty years he was a Governing Member of the Art Institute, and served it faithfully as one of its Trustees for more than eleven years. Here his fellow Trustees soon recognized the value of his cheerful and animated presence, his quiet and sane judgment. He was a zealous supporter of every branch of the varied work of the Art Institute, and enriched its Museum by repeated gifts of money, paintings, etchings and Japanese prints. He was a man of rare artistic taste and for many years found his greatest pleasure in bringing together the remarkable collection of etchings and Japanese prints that is now placed on exhibition for the first time. To his intimate friends this collee tion is a living witness of his infinite patience and lov ing care, the result of which is visible in the quality Of the prints hung upon these walls. The following abbreviations to the various print catalogues are used in this cata logue. 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.