Brand New!! The 100Th Anniversary Of The 1913 Armory Show

1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art
(The Armory Show) Poster

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show) by the Association of American Artists together with Sculptors in New York.

Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of arguably the most famous fine art exhibition of the 20th century

This was the outset large exhibition of Modern Art inward North America - together with much of it was past times European artists who'd non previously been seen past times fine art collectors inward the USA.

Four chiliad guests visited the rooms on the opening night.

It's of import to realise that upwards until this show, Americans who had non travelled were typically exclusively familiar alongside Realism - artwork which attempted to stand upwards for what was existent inward an objective reality.  In improver the powerful National Academy of Design was attempting to ignore it.

So what nosotros stimulate got inward New York inward 1913, inward effect, is a replay of the province of affairs nearly forty years before inward Paris inward 1874.  The French Salon, similar the National Academy, was the arbiter of national sense of savour together with was having no truck alongside the immature upstarts who were icon inward a novel way.  Thus  the demeanour on of the exhibition inward New York is really much similar to the demeanour on of the First Impressionist Exhibition held inward Paris betwixt 15 April- xv May 1874.

Which is why it's worth remembering!

After The Armory Show of 1913, artists working inward the USA were influenced past times the modern artwork past times major European artists which was exhibited inward this demo - for the balance of the 20th century.

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Why's it called The Armory Show?

The Armory Show was held inward 2 rooms at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan in New York City from Feb 17th to March 15th 1913.

While unremarkably a edifice associated alongside arms, the edifice is immediately a National Historic Landmark BECAUSE of its association alongside international fine art!

It is also nationally meaning equally the site of the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, the outset major exhibition of contemporary fine art inward America, that revolutionized the nation's artistic tastes together with perceptions. Some 1,300 plant of fine art were displayed, together with hither for the outset fourth dimension many Americans saw the plant of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse together with Picasso.

Who organised the Show?

The demo was organised by artists allied to the Association of American Painters together with Sculptors (AAPS) - which had (surprise surprise!) an all manly individual membership!  [Interestingly this arrangement does non merit an entry inward Wikipedia]. This is the Smithsonian's listing of Who’s Who at the 1913 Armory Show

• Seccretary together with American Painter Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) - he was charged alongside recording together with maintaining many of the official primary source records pertaining to the Armory Show.
• painter-critic Walter Pach (1883-1958) - having developed friendships alongside artists such equally Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, together with Constantin Brancusi, he was pivotal inward involving modern European artists.  He also wrote virtually Modern Art for the American public.
• progressive painter Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928) was the organising mastermind.  He had already developed an in-depth knowledge of emerging trends inward European together with American fine art inward the early on 1910s
• Elmer McRae was the treasurer for the show

[the Association of American Painters together with Sculptors belike merit a post inward their ain right].

Which artists exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show? 

1300 plant past times 300 artists were exhibited inward the 1913 Armory Show

View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph (late 1880s)
Paul Cézanne
Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm)
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1913
Metropolitan Museum of Art

European Past Masters who exhibited at the demo - together with told the storey of the journeying to Modern Art - included:

• Paul Cézanne (French Painter 1839–1906) Post Impressionist; ofttimes referred to equally the "father of modern painting"
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French painter 1824 – 24 Oct 1898) President together with Co-Founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French painter/printmaker 1796-1875)
• Gustave Courbet (French painter 1819 – 31 Dec 1877)
• Eugène Delacroix (French romantic creative individual 1798 – xiii August 1863)
• Vincent van Gogh ( Dutch post-Impressionist painter 1853-1890)
• Francisco Goya  (Spanish painter - 1746-1828)
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French NeoClassical Painter 1780-1867)

View of the Armory Show alongside the Brancusi Sculpture inward foreground left

Portrait of Mlle Pogany, 1912

exhibited at The Armory Show 1913

by Constantin Brancusi

White marble; limestone block, (44.4 x 21 x 31.4 cm)

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Living European Artists who exhibited included those who were breaking alongside traditions together with most associated alongside Modern Art.  They included:

• Pierre Bonnard (French painter/printmaker 1867-1947) Known for his intense purpose of colour. Founder fellow member of Les Nabis 
• Constantin Brâncuşi (Romanian 1876-1957) One of his sculptures (see above) inward an abstracted style alongside build clean lines was chosen for 1 of the postcards advertising the show 
• Georges Braque (French painter together with sculptor 1882-1963; developed Cubism alongside Picasso)
• Edgar Degas (French painter, printmaker together with sculptor 1834-1917)
• Maurice Denis (French painter and fellow member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements1870 – Nov 1943) 
• André Derain, 
• Marcel Duchamp (French artist, 1887-1968)  Associated alongside Dadism together with Suurrealism,  Gis icon of a individual descending the stairs represented motion through superimposing successive images inward the same means equally occurs inward film

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
(French: Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) 1912
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

sold to Frederick C. Torrey for $324.00 according to Walter Pach's sales records

This icon created a sensation when it was exhibited inward New York inward Feb 1913 at the historic Armory Show of contemporary art, where perplexed Americans saw it equally representing all the tricks they felt European artists were playing at their expense. The picture's outrageousness for sure lay inward its seemingly mechanical portrayal of a plain of written report at 1 time together with then sensual together with time-honored.Ann Temkin, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 307

Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) sparked a tempest of contention at the International Exhibition of Modern Art held at the National Guard 69th Regiment Armory inward New York inward 1913. The icon was perceived past times the bulk of fine art critics to survive utterly unintelligible, together with it shortly became the butt of jokes, jingles, together with caricatures. The American Art Newsoffered a x dollar vantage to the outset reader who could "find the lady"1 inside the jumble of interlocking planes together with jagged lines, together with paper cartoonists had a plain 24-hour interval alongside the painting, lampooning it alongside such titles equally "The Rude Descending the Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway)" together with the memorable "Explosion inward a Shingle Factory."Twentieth Century Painting together with Sculpture inward the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2000), p. 27

L'Atelier Rouge 1911

Henri Matisse

Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm. 

In the collection of the MOMA

• Raoul Dufy, 
• Jacob Epstein, 
• Paul Gauguin, 
• Augustus John, 
• Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944)
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Fernand Léger,
• Édouard Manet,
• Claude Monet,
• Henri Matisse
• Edward Munch, 
• Pablo Picasso, (Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, 1881-1973) Probably the most famous creative individual of the 20th Century. 
• Camille Pissarro, 
• Odilon Redon,
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 
• Auguste Rodin, 
• Henri Rousseau, 
• Georges Seurat, 
• Walter Sickert (German./British painter/printmaker - 1860-1942) Member of the Camden Town Group
• Paul Signac (French neo-impressionist painter 1863 – xv August 1935) worked alongside Seurat

Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (La Bonne-Mère), Marseilles 1905
Paul Signac
oil on canvas, (88.9 x 116.2 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

• Alfred Sisley
• Maurice de Vlaminck,
• Édouard Vuillard

Artwork was also exhibited past times Past Masters from the USA - including paintings past times the American Impressionists

• Theodore Robinson (American Painter 1852-1896)
• John Henry Twachtman,  (American Impressionist Painter 1853-1902)
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American born together with British based creative individual 1834-1903)

Living American artists who exhibited included:

• Mary Cassatt 
• George Bellows,
• Marsden Hartley (American Modernist painter 1877-1943)
• Childe Hassam, (American Impressionist Painter 1859-1935)
• Edward Hopper,
• Joseph Stella (American Futurist painter 1877 – Nov 5, 1946)

Wikipedia's entry for The Arnory Show provides listings of other artists who took business office in The Artists and More artists

What's happening for the Centennial?

Not much.

• New Jersey's Montclair Art Museum - The New Spirit: American Art inward the Armory Show, 1913 February 17, 2013 - June 16, 2013 is displaying forty from the original show's 800 plant of American art. 
• New-York Historical Society - The Armory Show at 100 later inward the twelvemonth aims to exhibit about 6% of the 1,200-plus plant which were exhibited at the original show

The 2013 exhibition revisits the Armory Show from an art-historical betoken of view, shedding novel lite on the artists represented together with how New Yorkers responded. It volition also house this now-legendary lawsuit inside the context of its historical minute inward the U.S. together with the milieu of New York City inward ca. 1911–1913. To that end, music, literature together with early on cinema volition survive considered, equally good equally the political together with economical climate.

Articles virtually The Armory Show 1913

Here are to a greater extent than articles virtually The Armory Show 1913

• Smithsonian Institution:
• The Story of the Armory Show, online exhibition on the Archives of American Art's website
• To acquire more, see 1913 Armory Show: the Story inward Primary Sources
• 1913 Armory Show: the Story inward Primary Sources, digital timeline
• Highlights of the Armory Show
• Walter Pach notebook recording sales at the New York Armory Show, 1913 Feb. 18-Mar. 15
• AskArt - "New York Armory Show of 1913"
• Los Angeles Times - Culture Monster - The 1913 Armory Show shook the fine art world

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