Picasso's War by Hugh Eakin Summary
Overview of Picasso's War
In 1939, a single exhibition transformed American art forever. "Picasso's War" reveals how MoMA's daring showcase saved masterpieces from Nazis, shifted the art world from Paris to New York, and inspired legends like Pollock - all while America initially resisted modern art's radical vision.
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The Artistic Revolution That Transformed America
In a cramped Manhattan apartment in 1924, art collector John Quinn unveiled Henri Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy" to four carefully selected guests. This painting-showing a serene woman slumbering as a lion approaches-represented Quinn's lifelong mission as a cultural renegade who had personally supported many artists defining modernism. Seriously ill with cancer at fifty-four, Quinn had no resolved plans for his extraordinary collection. This moment would become part of a larger story-how a handful of determined individuals fought to bring modern art, particularly Picasso's revolutionary work, to an initially hostile America. Their struggle would eventually transform the Museum of Modern Art from rented rooms without a single Picasso into a global cultural powerhouse where his revolutionary works now dominate the galleries. America in the early 1900s existed in profound contradiction. While boasting world power status with advanced technology, its culture remained deeply conservative. Wall Street lawyer John Quinn recognized this paradox acutely. Born to Irish immigrants in small-town Ohio, he had risen remarkably to become Harvard-educated with connections to presidents and leading intellectuals. Yet when confronted with Picasso's Cubist figures at Alfred Stieglitz's Little Galleries in 1911, he found them as perplexing as other New Yorkers who saw them as "Alaskan totem poles" or "emanations of a disordered mind." Quinn grew increasingly disillusioned with what he called "dead art"-the varnish-coated "brown gravy" paintings that wealthy Americans coveted for social status. He craved art with "radium"-work that possessed vitality and expressed contemporary life. In February 1913, he helped organize the International Exhibition of Modern Art (the Armory Show), which struck New York with explosive force. Despite Quinn's promotional efforts, critics were largely negative, with some suggesting the avant-garde works were socially deviant and politically dangerous. In Chicago, students from the Art Institute even staged a mock trial and burning of Matisse reproductions-the first organized act of violence against modern art in twentieth-century America.
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