Art in Buffalo (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Art in Buffalo<br><br>If the following pages have any historic value, or are found to be of any interest to the lovers of art or to the general public, thanks are due to Mr. James N. Johnston, a friend of all the Muses, without whose encouraging importunity they probably never would have been written. True it is, that the writer has long had it in mind to leave behind him some kind of record of his familiarity with Buffalo's early art and artists; but, owing to his more urgent duties, the inception has been allowed to remain in abeyance until the "more convenient season," a time which seldom comes. No one is more painfully aware of the imperfection of the work than the writer. The principal purpose was to keep in vivid memory things concerning the early art of the city which now are fast fading into utter oblivion; but the subject "grew by what it fed upon," and what was first intended to be only data for the future historian, increased till it embraced a general review of Buffalo's art up to the present day, as far as the writer's memory (in want of early authorities, if any existed) could assist him.<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.