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...Artists Arthur B. Davies, Walter Pach and Walt Kuhn were busy organizing the famed Armory Show that was to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. Scouting for canvases, they went to the Duchamp brothers' studio, found four by youngest brother Marcel. All were cubist abstractions painted in a monotone, but quick-witted Marcel Du-champ gave them intriguing names: The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes; Chess Players; Sad Young Man on a Train; Nude Descending a Staircase...
Excellent but unnewsworthy were examples of other famed members of the Society, Walter Pach, John Sloan, Stuart Davis, Rockwell Kent, Leon Kroll. Maurice Sterne and the late George Bellows, Maurice B. Prendergast. Glenn O. Coleman, "Pop" Hart and Alfred Maurer...
Said the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell: "The mural is to a very large extent drearily static . . . intensified by the washed-out color, dryly and scratchily applied. ... As a critic and man of letters Walter Pach rises brilliantly, clear of the defects that mar his work as an artist...
...York World Telegram-said: "Walter Pach is a gentle erudite man with an enviable and long-standing reputation as lecturer and author (we hesitate to say artist, though he has been painting for many years...
Painters are traditionally articulate; Walter Pach more so than most. His father, founder of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, was official photographer to the Metropolitan Museum of Art since its founding. The child crawled on the Museum's floors before he could walk, squinting observantly up at the walls. His nickname was first "Rabbits," because he raised them, then "Piney," because his hair bristled. In 1907 he went to Paris, saw a Matisse painting, "felt a blow between the eyes." He began to fight the battle of modern art, helped organize the famed Armory Show...