Armory Show
1913 · Event
Some 1,300 works fill a New York armoury, bringing Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp and the European avant-garde to a scandalised American public — the birth of modern art in the United States.
On these timelines: Painting & Sculpture, Arts and Thoughts, Master, USA
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