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TALK ON THE OLD MASTERS
BY MR. CHASE
NEW YORK SCHOOL OF ART ,
NOVEMBER 17th, 1906.
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1. I am going to begin my talk by touching first on the Old Masters. 

2. Stupendous lectures have been delivered, and volumes have been written on the subject, and it is not possible to-night for me to touch voluminously on all of the great artists of the world, but before I finish my talk I will give my reasons.

3. As I came in, my good friend Connah, thinking he might do me a favor in mentioning the works on view here as masterpieces has annoyed me beyond description, and has promised not to do it again. It may be possible when I am dead, 10, 20 or 30 years, whether these canvases are worthy of such mention. I am rather uncertain of this for fear that I may learn it later on. 

4. The most important features of the great Cities of the world are found in their Museums - the Art Museums - which are temples to the great men who have lived and gone - and nothing could be more magnificent than the opportunities afforded us and to realize what has been done and what it is possible to do, which is of such great importance to the world's progress.

5. Of what importance would such Cities as London, (with its National Gallery, South Kensington Museum) Paris, (with its Louvre, Luxemberg [[Luxembourg]]), Madrid (with its Prado Museum) be without these great temples, in which are found such wonderful and magnificent things.