![Item #3556 [The Armory Show Catalogue, 1913] Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art: Association of American Painters and Sculptors: at the Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Infantry, Lexington Avenue, Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Streets, New York, from February Fifteenth to March Fifteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirteen from ten a.m. to ten p.m. (Sundays included). Frederick James Gregg, Association of American Painters, Sculptors, N. Y. New York.](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3556.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752755976)
[The Armory Show Catalogue, 1913] Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art: Association of American Painters and Sculptors: at the Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Infantry, Lexington Avenue, Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Streets, New York, from February Fifteenth to March Fifteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirteen from ten a.m. to ten p.m. (Sundays included).
[New York]: [Vreeland Advertising Press], [1913]. First edition, first state. Half-title: International Exhibition of Modern Art. New York 1913. Title-page with vignette; printer’s statement on verso. Publisher’s color-illustrated wrappers. Advertisements also on inside front and back wrappers. pp. [1–16] (including ads, half-title, title, imprint, preface, etc.) 17–97, [1 (blank)], [4] (ads); with a full-page floor plan printed on p. 68. 12mo (195 × 105 mm). Spine slightly creased, with minor surface wear; shallow wear to extremities; faint scattered spotting to covers and some light soiling, including a small stain to the lower front cover near the spine. Minor edge creases to corners. Internally clean and complete. Some rust marks at inner margins from original staples. Numerous contemporary pencil annotations throughout the List of Artists and Their Works (pp. 17–67), mostly check marks, underlining, and descriptive marginalia (e.g. “cubist,” “really good,” “awfull”), all in a single hand and adding evidential interest. Overall a good to very good copy.
First edition, first state of the scarce 1913 Armory Show catalogue—an iconic document of American modernism—here with contemporary annotations offering insight into early reception.
Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Modern Art—commonly known as the 1913 Armory Show—held at the Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory in New York City. Organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the show was the first major exhibition in the United States devoted to modern art. It presented some 1,300 works by over 300 avant-garde European and American artists, offering American audiences their first direct encounter with Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism. Works by Duchamp, Matisse, Brâncuși, and Picasso provoked widespread public and critical reaction, and the exhibition is now regarded as a foundational moment in the history of American modernism. After its New York debut, the show traveled to Chicago and Boston.
This is the first state of the first edition, with 97 numbered pages, corresponding to the Getty Research Institute copy (LCCN 15013453; Accession no. 91-B12639; OCLC 80870711). This version omits the “legend” for the floor plan and contains numerous inconsistencies in the artist index. Several artists are listed twice (Gauguin appears three times), occasionally under variant spellings or with or without abbreviated forenames, and some duplications lack clear explanation. It lists 1,040 works; six additional entries—by J. Alden Weir and George Bellows—appear only in the later 105-page issue. We are not aware of any prior bibliographical study describing the differences between these print states. The present version is presumed earlier, based on the uncorrected index and omissions later rectified.
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