Visitors of the #1913ArmoryShow

Walt Kuhn, one of the Armory Show’s chief organizers, recalled the great variety of visitors who came to the 1913 exhibition “to be refreshed by the excitement.” Contemporary critics agreed: according to The Independent, watching “the effect of the pictures on the crowd” in the Armory was more interesting than looking at the pictures: http://armory.nyhistory.org/the-exquisite-the-vulgar-from-all-walks-of-life-they-came/

The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution is now on view at the New-York Historical Society: http://www.nyhistory.org/armory