1825 The National Academy of Design is founded
1877 The Society of American Artists is formed, providing an alternative
to the National Academy of Design in New York
1878 The Society of American Artists holds its first exhibition
1898 The Ten holds their first exhibition at Durand-Ruel Gallery in New York
1903 The Salon d’Automne holds its first annual art exhibition in Paris
1905 Stieglitz opens the 291 Gallery, America’s first Modern Art gallery,
which represents several artists included in the Armory Show
1907 The Salon d’Automne in Paris memorializes Cézanne, who died in
1906, with a retrospective
1908 The Eight is formed, led by Robert Henri and including Everett
Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson,Maurice
Prendergast, George Luks, and William J. Glackens
1908 291 Gallery shows works by Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse, for
the first time in America
1910 291 Gallery introduces work by Paul Cézanne to America
1911 291 Gallery introduces work by Pablo Picasso to America
14 December 1911 Henry Fitch Taylor, Jerome Myers, Elmer L. Mac Rae, and Walt Kuhn
hold a preliminary meeting at Madison Gallery in New York,
discussing the status and needs of American Art
19 December 1911 The Association of American Painters and Sculptors (AAPS) is founded
19 April 1912 On behalf of AAPS, Walt Kuhn enters into negotiations with Col.
Louis D. Conley to lease the 69th Regiment Armory for $5,000
August-November 1912 Walt Kuhn travels to Europe, with stops in Plymouth, Hamburg,
Cologne, Düsseldorf, The Hague, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Paris,
and London
30 September 1912 Walt Kuhn arrives in Cologne on the last day of the Sonderbund’s
International Art Exhibition
4 October 1912 Arthur B. Davies drafts a floorplan for the exhibition and sends it to
Walt Kuhn for suggestions
7 October 1912 Kuhn is introduced to the then unknown Frenchman, Odilon Redon;
he also secures approximatly 6 to 10 Van Gogh works in The Hague
and Amsterdam
5-12 November 1912 Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn meet Walter Pach in Paris. They
secure Matisse’s
Blue Nude
and
Madras Rouge
, as well as Duchamp’s
Nude Descending a Staircase II
December 1912 Davies and Kuhn issue an invitation for American artists to submit
work for the First International Exhibition
January 1913 Shipments of art from Europe begin to arrive for the exhibition
February 1913 The gallery floor is set up and artwork is installed in two days
17 February 1913 Opening day of the Armory Show, International Exhibition of Modern
Art at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. Over 80,000
attended the exhibition in New York by the end of its run
March 1913 The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchases Paul Cézanne’s
Hill of
the Poor (View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph)
, the artist’s first work
to enter an American museum. The most expenisve work sold
during the show for $6,700
Marcel Duchamp’s
Nude Descending a Staircase II
sells to Frederick
C. Torrey for $324
Wassily Kandinsky’s
The Garden of Love (Improvisation Number
27)
sells to Alfred Stieglitz for $500
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