20th Century Art
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Many people continue to ask these questions today, nearly one hundred years after the landmark Armory Show of 1913. That exhibition, quite literally, created a sensation when it debuted in New York (then traveled to Chicago and finally, to Boston) with what were then the most current examples of European and American avant-garde art. This online presentation and its partner — an exhibit in the real world, were designed to introduce important concepts about abstraction and its history in a non-threatening manner by pairing important examples of paintings, drawings, and prints drawn exclusively from the collection of the Illinois State Museum with user-friendly text. Celebrate the achievements of Manierre Dawson , a little-known Illinois pioneer of abstraction whose early paintings challenge generally accepted dates for the origin of pure abstraction.
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