Although realist painter John Sloan (1871 – 1951) was one of the fortunate American painters to also be included in the 1913 Armory Show (he was also on the organizing committee), it did not mean that he was above ridiculing the European modernists who were enjoying the same prestige that he was.


To read an additional anti-Cubist essay, click here.


To read an anti-Picasso review from that same period, click here.


Cubism was ridiculed to a further degree by the “Academy of Misapplied Art”:


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