The Armory Show Background “The Eight” “Ashcan School” George Bellows John Sloan 291 – Alfred Stieglitz National Academy of Design Association of American Painters and Sculptors (AAPS) Arthur Davies (president) Walt Kuhn (secretary)
International Exhibition of Modern Art February 17, 1913 – 69th Regiment Armory Cubists, Fauves, Impressionists Futurists not present General Response/Reaction Not many attend at first News gets out
Exhibition is a farce Money making venture Critical Response to artists Artists are insincere Self indulgent Anarchists Failing to serve proper function
Retrogression Meaningless Kenyon Cox Theodore Roosevelt Particular Artists/Works gain attention Marcel Duchamp – Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 American Art News – contest Henri Matisse – Blue Nude
Impact of Armory Show 250, 000 see it Increase in Modern art collecting Institutions National Academy of Design Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts American artists influenced Contributes to larger political/cultural concerns/debates of time