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...full-page article in the old New York American, the noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz heralded the coming exhibition in phrases so extravagant that it hardly seemed possible that the show would live up to his claims. "This glorious affair," he wrote, "is coming off at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. Don't miss it. If you still belong to the respectable old first primer class in art, you will see there stranger things than you ever dreamed were on land or sea-and you'll hear a battle cry of freedom without any soft pedal...
...Stieglitz, of course, was right: it was America's first introduction to modern art on the grand scale, and the fabled Armory Show of 1913 was not so much a handshake as a collision. It jolted not only the public but museums, collectors. and even the artists who organized it. The press for the most part jeered, but one reporter on the Globe proved prophetic. "American art,'' he said, ''will never be the same again...
...quiet desperation of a group of U.S. painters who felt that their work was not getting nearly the attention it deserved. The art establishment in those days was run by the National Academy of Design, whose tastes ran to the sentimental, the anecdotal, and the academic. Though Stieglitz had exhibited such men as Matisse, Picasso and John Marin in his Manhattan gallery, the critics' verdict on his shows ranged from a patronizing "bewildering" to a savage "subterhuman hideousness." The most vital American painters were a group subsequently known as the Ashcan School, but their harshly realistic paintings were receiving...
American Dream. In the promotion of top American art Alfred Stieglitz was the great pioneer, five decades ago. If Stieglitz has an heir it is Edith Gregor Halpert, whose Downtown Gallery (originally downtown but now located on East 51st Street) opened in 1926 with three artists that Stieglitz had turned over to her: John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Stieglitz' wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. In addition to the works of these three, Dealer Halpert also sells the paintings of the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arthur Dove and Max Weber. Other artists on this formidable roster: Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Charles...
...spent six frustrating years trying to turn himself into an architect. Finally, he went to Paris to study art-and in 1909 had the luck to meet Photographer Edward Steichen. As soon as Steichen got back to Manhattan, he showed a few Marin watercolors to his old friend Alfred Stieglitz, whose now legendary gallery was the first to show such men as Cézanne. Picasso and Matisse in the U.S. Marin took his place alongside them...