5 March 1913 Former President Theodore Roosevelt visits the exhibition on the
day of Woodrow Wilson’s presidential inauguration
8 March 1913 The Association of American Painters and Sculptors holds a
celebratory beef-steak dinner for “friends and enemies” of the
Armory Show at Healy’s, 66th Street and Columbus Avenue
24 March 1913 The exhibition moves to Chicago. Opening day at the Art Institute
of Chicago attracts 1,802 visitors
2 April 1913 Charges that the exhibition of Cubist and Futurist pictures at the Art
Institute contain many indecent canvases and sculptures are
investigated by the Illinois Legislative ”White Slave” Commission
28 April-19 May 1913 Opening day in Boston; the Copley Society hosts the final stop of
the International Exhibition of Modern Art
18 May 1913 Members of AAPS resign, beginning the dissolution of the association
1917 Duchamp’s
Fountain
is rejected from the exhibition of the Society of
Independent Artists and later shown at Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery
1920-30 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney amasses a collection of Ashcan
School works, as well as a large collection of early non-
representational Modernist works
1920 Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray found the Société
Anonyme, an “experimental museum” with the aim of promoting
modern art in America
1924 New York lawyer, John Quinn, who helped organize and sponsor
the Armory Show and was its most significant buyer of modern
works, dies
1929 The Museum of Modern Art is founded; developed largely by
prominent collectors Lillie P. Bliss and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
1930 Chicago lawyer and the second largest art buyer in the Armory Show,
Arthur J. Eddy, dies. His family donates 20 works to the Art Institute
of Chicago, including 8 works purchased in the Armory Show
1931 The Whitney Museum of American Art is founded by Gertrude
Vanderbilt Whitney
1931 Lillie P. Bliss, major art collector and friend of Arthur B. Davies, dies,
leaving a vast part of her collection to the Museum of Modern Art,
New York
1938 On the 25th anniversary of the show, Walt Kuhn publishes
The Story
of the Armory Show
1949 Matisse’s
Blue Nude
, of The Cone Collection, is donated to the
Baltimore Museum of Art
1950
Nude Descending the Staircase
by Duchamp is donated to the
Philadelphia Museum of Art from The Louise and Walter Arensberg
Collection
1963 The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, 1913 Armory
Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition opens
1994 The Gramercy International Art Fair premieres in New York
1999 The Gramercy International Art Fair is renamed after the 1913
exhibition as The Armory Show. It continues to exhibit today and is
the largest Art fair in New York
2011 Cézanne’s
Card Players
sells for $268.1 million, to date the most
valuable painting ever sold
February 2013 Montclair Museum of Art, The New Spirit: American Art in the
Armory Show opens
October 2013 New York Historical Society, The Armory Show at 100 opens
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