Excerpt from Catalogue of the Paintings in the Art Gallery of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago, 1877 The exhibition OF pictures OF the exposition OF 1877 is composed of works contributed by well-known American artists, and a smaller number of good foreign pictures furnished by Eastern art dealers. It embraces the most extensive and important collee tion of water colors yet exhibited in the West, for which the Art Committee takes pleasure in acknowledging its obligations to the co-operation of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors. Miss Rose Durfee, of New York, has acted as the agent of the Committee in the collection of pictures from New York artists and dealers, and will be in Chicago during the season of the Exhibition. 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.