International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show]

"ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS
OFFICERS
- ARTHUR B. DAVIES, President
- J. MOWBRAY­-CLARKE, Vice-President
- ELMER L. MACRAE, Treasurer
- WALT KUHN, Secretary
MEMBERS
- KARL ANDERSON - GEORGE BELLOWS - D. PUTNAM BRINLEY - J. MOWBRAY-CLARKE - LEON DABO­JO DAVIDSON - ARTHUR B. DAVIES - GUY PENE DU BOIS­ - SHERRY E. FRY - WILLIAM J. GLACKENS - ROBERT HENRI - E. A. KRAMER - WALT KUHN - ERNEST LAWSON - JONAS LIE - GEORGE B. LUKS - ELMER L. MACRAE - JEROME MYERS - FRANK A. NANKIVELL - BRUCE PORTER - MAURICE PRENDERGAST - JOHN SLOAN - HENRY FITCH TAYLOR - ­ALLEN TUCKER - MAHONRI YOUNG.
HONORARY VICE PRESIDENTS
- MRS. JOHN LOWELL GARDNER - MRS. EDWIN SHERRILL DODGE - MRS. C. S. DAVIDGE - ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON, ESQ. - SIR HUGH LANE - NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, D. D. - M. CLAUDE MONET - M. AUGUSTE RENOIR - M. ODILON REDON - AUGUSTUS JOHN, ESQ. - ALFRED STIEGLITZ, ESQ. - JOEL ELIAS SPINGARN, ESQ.
HONORARY MEMBERS
JOHN QUINN - FREDERICK JAMES GREGG", n.p.

Nr. of pages: [PDF page number: 52].
Holding Institution: The Art Institute of Chicago

Gregg, Frederick James: Preface, 2 p.

"PREFACE
Mr. Arthur B. Davies, President of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, made the following statement on the last day of the year, 1912:
"On behalf of the Executive Committee, I desire to explain the general attitude of the Association, and especially in regard to the International Exhibition.
''This is not an institution but an association. It is composed of persons of varying tastes and predilections, who are agreed on one thing-that the time has arrived for giving the public here the opportunity to see for themselves the results of new influences at work in other countries in an art way.
"In getting together the works of the European Moderns, the Society has embarked on no propaganda. It proposes to enter on no controversy with any institution. Its sole object is to put the paintings, sculptures, and so on, on exhibition so that the intelligent may judge for themselves by themselves.
"Of course controversies will arise, just as they have arisen under similar circumstances in France, Italy, Germany and England. But they will not be the result of any stand taken by this Association as such; on the other hand, we are perfectly willing to assume full responsibility for providing the opportunity to those who may take one side or the other.
"Any individual expression of opinion contrary to the above is at variance with the official resolutions of this Association.''
The wide publicity given to the above in the public press all over the country showed to what an extent it was accepted as a definite and precise expression of the policy and the aims of the Association in its relation to the art of Europe and to the American public. That policy and those aims remain unchanged.
Anything that can be said further must be but an amplification of the statement. The foreign
paintings and sculptures here shown are regarded by the committee of the Association as expressive of the forces which have been at work abroad of late, forces which cannot be ignored because they have had results.
The American artists exhibiting here, consider the exhibition as of equal importance for themselves as for the lay public. The less they find their work showing signs of the developments indicated in the Europeans, the more reason they will have to consider whether or not painters and sculptors here have fallen behind through escaping the incidence through distance and for other reasons of the forces that have manifested themselves on the other side of the Atlantic.
Art is a sign of life. There can be no life without change, as there can be no development without change. To be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar, is to be afraid of life. And to be afraid of life is to be afraid of truth, and to be a champion of superstition. This exhibition is an indication that the Association of American Painters and Sculptors is against cowardice even when it takes the form of amiable self satisfaction.
FREDERICK JAMES GREGG.", 2 p.

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