until Sunday June 16 2013

Montclair Art Museum
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3 South Mountain Avenue
07042-1747 Montclair
United States

Press contact
Catherine Mastrangelo
cmastrangelo@montclairartmuseum.org
https://www.montclairartmuseum.org

The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913 celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the famous and controversial 1913 Armory Show with a major exhibition that opens exactly 100 years to the day from the original. The New Spirit will be the first exhibition to focus primarily on the American artists represented in that show.

The exhibition at the Montclair Art Museum presents mainly the American artists who contributed to the Armory Show and enlists new scholarship to challenge the conventional notion that their art was largely provincial.
The exhibition spotlights the diverse range of American art that was exhibited with nearly 40 works of various media by 36 American artists, including several notable female artists. It will include works by well-known artists like Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, and John Marin, as well as works by artists such as Manierre Dawson, Kathleen McEnery, and E. Ambrose Webster, who, despite their talents, remain at the periphery of mainstream American art history. An introductory section will feature works by Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse to reveal the influence and context of European modernism. Special efforts have been made to recreate details of the original installation, including burlap wall coverings, decorative pine trees, and yellow-hued streamers overhead, forming a tentlike canopy for the exhibition space.