Curator Marilyn Kushner and exhibition historian and catalog editor/contributor Casey Blake, talk about “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014. The exhibition celebrates the centennial year of the legendary 1913 Armory Show, one of the most important art events and a turning point in American art, and brings together 100 masterworks from the show, including iconic pieces by Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso and John Marin, and others.
Oil on canvas, 31 ½ x 25 5/8 in. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Gift of Ferdinand Howald, 1931.184.
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
Oil on canvas, 28 ¼ x 35 ¾ in. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978, 78.2514.24
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 26 15/16 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman.
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
(Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Oil on canvas, 36 ¼ x 55 ¼ in. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, BMA 1950.228.
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
(© 2013 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Mitro Hood.)
Oil on canvas, 26 1/8 x 32 1/8 in. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Museum Purchase, 1938.67.
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
(© 2013 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
Watercolor over graphite, 18 ½ x 15 9/16 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer.
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
(© 2013 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.)
Oil on canvas, 29⅞ × 26⅜ in. (76 × 67 cm). Private collection.
(Photo, Richard Greenly Photography)
Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection, 39.677
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
Oil on panel, 10¼ × 13⅜ in. (26 × 33.9 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Whitney Warren, Jr. Bequest Fund in memory of Mrs. Adolph B. Spreckels, Bequest funds of Henry S. Williams in memory of H. K. S. Williams, Magnin Income Fund, Art Trust Fund, Alexander and Jean de Bretteville Fund, Art Acquisition Endowment Income Fund in honor of Mrs. John N. Rosekrans, 1996.51
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
Oil on canvas, 57 7/8 x 35 1/8 in. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950, 1950-134-59.
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
( © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Succession Marcel Duchamp)
From “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through February 23, 2014.
(Smithsonian Institution)