The International Exhibition of Modern Art, organized by the painters Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, brought roughly 1,300 works to a National Guard armory in Manhattan, giving America its first mass encounter with Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse and Cubism. Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase became the scandal of the century's young art.
American collecting, museum-building and art-making pivoted toward European modernism in a single season.
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