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...first real taste of revolutionary European painting, Katherine Dreier was converted from an ardent suffragist into the most ardent U.S. booster of artistic revolution. A mediocre painter herself, she traipsed massively through the ateliers and studios of Paris encouraging, propagandizing, buying. With famed French Painter Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Stairs} and U.S. Abstract Photographer Man Ray, she formed the Socieété Anonyme, first society for collecting and spreading modern art in the U.S., started her tremendous collection under its name. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the Société Anonyme's famed rival...
...treasures Collector Dreier did not give her Société is a painting on glass by Abstractionist Duchamp which she has had built into the wall of her house. Several years ago, on its way to an exhibition in Brooklyn, the glass picture got shattered. To restore it, Artist Duchamp made a special trip to the U.S., pieced it together like a picture puzzle, found that the cracks improved the com position...
...Still sticking to their beloved Paris, Hitler or no, were six of the most famed figures in contemporary art: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, André Derain, Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, Marcel Duchamp. To them the German army of occupation had extended special privileges, including an extra ration of coal...
Most embattled of all the Independents' veterans, 69-year-old John Sloan, a scrappy, Pennsylvania-born Scotch-Irishman, has long been one of the most engaging personalities of the U.S. art world. One New Year's Eve, with Artist Marcel Duchamp (famed for his Nude ,Descending the Staircase), John Sloan climbed to the top of Washington Square's Arch, there built a bonfire and read a solemn declaration proclaiming Greenwich Village an independent republic. Less violent than his speeches and ideas were John Sloan's trenchant, Daumier-like paintings and etchings of Manhattan street and rooftop...
...Dada intellectuals known best in Manhattan were Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Staircase) and his friend Francis Picabia. Picabia, born in Paris in 1878 of a French mother and a Spanish father, began exhibiting landscapes in Paris in 1894, enjoyed official successes and easy sales until 1913, when he got fed up with success. Moving first to Manhattan, then to Barcelona, finally to Paris in 1920, Picabia poured out bucketfuls of Dada, including his noted Portrait of Cézanne, Portrait of Rembrandt, Portrait of Renoir, Still Lives (all this consisting of a stuffed monkey mounted on a board...