1. 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)

2. 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

3. Exhibition is a farce
Money making venture
Critical Response to artists
Artists are insincere
Self indulgent
Anarchists
Failing to serve proper function

4. 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

5. 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