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1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963 HC/DJ Munson-Williams-Proctor

1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963 HC/DJ Munson-Williams-Proctor

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1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1963. Organized by Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; sponsored by the Henry Street Settlement, New York. Utica/New York, 1963. First edition. 4to, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, in illustrated dust jacket designed by Ivan Chermayeff. 212pp, 16 color plates and 261 b/w illustrations. Foreword by Edward H. Dwight; essay "The Armory Show in Retrospect" by Milton Brown; statements by twelve original 1913 exhibitors including Duchamp, Archipenko, Zorach, Davis, and Sheeler; complete reprint of the original 1913 exhibition catalogue with provenance notes; period reviews and cartoons (Theodore Roosevelt, Kenyon Cox, Walter Pach). Boards sound; dust jacket shows edgewear with a chip/tear at the spine head. A key standard reference on the Armory Show, still cited in current scholarship.
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