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Excerpt from The Story of the Armory Show
It is necessary to realize that at this time most of the younger American artists, especially the progressive ones, had no place to show their wares. No dealer''s gallery was open to them, the press in general was apathetic, maybe one in a thousand of our citizens had a slight idea of the meaning of the word art. Perhaps it would be fitting at this point to give credit to two American women. Mrs. Ger trude V. Whitney and Mrs. Clara Potter Davidge. Mrs. Davidge conducted a small gallery at 305 Madison Avenue of which Henry Fitch Taylor, a painter, was the director. Mrs. Whitney, I believe, supplied most of the wherewithal. A small group of younger artists were given free exhibitions at this gallery. Three of the exhibitors, Elmer Mac Rae, Jerome Myers and myself, together with Mr. Taylor the director, would sit and talk of the help lessness of our situation. Finally on December 14, 1911, we agreed to take action. Additional artists were invited. On December 16th the group had grown to sixteen members. Meetings were con tinued and new members added until the list looked sufficiently large and representative to answer the purpose.
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It is necessary to realize that at this time most of the younger American artists, especially the progressive ones, had no place to show their wares. No dealer''s gallery was open to them, the press in general was apathetic, maybe one in a thousand of our citizens had a slight idea of the meaning of the word art. Perhaps it would be fitting at this point to give credit to two American women. Mrs. Ger trude V. Whitney and Mrs. Clara Potter Davidge. Mrs. Davidge conducted a small gallery at 305 Madison Avenue of which Henry Fitch Taylor, a painter, was the director. Mrs. Whitney, I believe, supplied most of the wherewithal. A small group of younger artists were given free exhibitions at this gallery. Three of the exhibitors, Elmer Mac Rae, Jerome Myers and myself, together with Mr. Taylor the director, would sit and talk of the help lessness of our situation. Finally on December 14, 1911, we agreed to take action. Additional artists were invited. On December 16th the group had grown to sixteen members. Meetings were con tinued and new members added until the list looked sufficiently large and representative to answer the purpose.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Walt Kuhn
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ISBN - 9780266954422
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm
Page Count - 30
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ISBN - 9781527843363
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