The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America
Resources

Exhibition Catalogue
A Catalogue Raisonné
Yale Libraries
Artists' Foundations
Selected Readings
Quicktime Tour

The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue of the same title, with essays by Ruth Bohan, Susan Greenberg, Jennifer Gross, Elise Kenney, David Joselit, Dickran Tashjian, and Kristina Wilson. Copublished by the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University Press, 2006.

A Catalogue Raisonné

The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University
A Catalogue Raisonné

Front Matter
Contents, Forward, Preface and Acknowledgments, Explanatory Notes on the Use of the Catalogue, Short Titles Used in the Catalogue, Introduction, and Bibliography

Artists A-B
Constantin Alajálov, Josef Albers, Annot, Alexander Archipenko, Jean (Hans) Arp, Ernst Barlach, Charles Barnes, Rudolf Bauer, Willi Baumeister, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Lothar Blankenburg, Albert Bloch, Umberto Boccioni, Richard Boix, Ilya Bolotowsky, Sándor Bortnyik, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Gottfried Brockmann, Dora Bromberger, Douglas Edwin Brown, Patrick Henry Bruce, Carl Buchheister, and David Burliuk

Artists C-D
Alexander Calder, Heinrich Campendonk, Otto Gustaf Carlsund, Mario Carreño, Leon Carroll, Marc Chagall, Serge Charchoune, Giorgio de Chirico, John Covert, Jean Crotti, József Csáky, James Henry Daugherty, Fortunato Depero, André Derain, Burgoyne Diller, Théo Van Doesburg, Marthe Donas, Gerardo Dottori, Arthur Garfield Dove, Dorothea A. Dreier, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Werner Drewes, Alexander Davidovich Drewin, Christof Drexel, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Freidel Dzubas

Artists E-H
Louis Michel Eilshemius, Adolf Erbslöh, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Conrad Felixmüller, Oskar W. Fischinger, James A. Fitzsimmons, Naum Gabo, Herbert Garbe, Paul Gauguin, Paul Gaulois, Fritz Glarner, Albert Gleizes, Anne Goldthwaite, Arshile Gorky, John D. Graham, Juan Gris, Gustave Gwozdecki, Alice Halicka, Lawren Stewart Harris, Marsden Hartley, Jacoba Van Heemskerck, Karl Herrmann, Angelika Hoerle, and Harry Holtzmann

Artists J-L
Rudolf Jacobi, Alexej Jawlensky, Finnur Jónsson, Béla Kádár, David Nestorovitch Kakabadzé, Walter Kamys, Wassily Kandinsky, Ragnhild Keyser, Stefi Kiesler, "Pietro de Saga", Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Erika Giovanna Klien, Käthe Kohlsaat, Fernand Léger, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Jacques Lipchitz, El Lissitzky, Louis Lozowick, and Adriaan Lubbers

Artists M-P
Kasimir Malevich, Antonio Marasco, Franz Marc, Louis Marcoussis, John Marin, Ewald Mataré, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta Echaurren, Jan Matulka, Kasimir Medunetsky, Carlo Mense, Jean Metzinger, G. M. [Georg Meyer?], Robert Michel, Joan Miró, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Molzahn, Piet Mondrian, Georg Muche, Heinrich Nauen, Otto Nebel, Ruby Warren Newby, Emil Nolde, Paul Outerbridge, Jr., Ivo Pannaggi, Georges Papazoff, Hermann Max Pechstein, Hélène Perdriat, Laszlo Peri, Antoine Pevsner, Holmead Phillips, Marjorie Phillips, Suzanne Phocas, Francis Picabia, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Liubov Popova, Hermann Post, Enrico Prampolini, Ivan Puni (Jean Pougny), and Wallace Putnam

Artists R-S
Man Ray, Odilon Redon, Robert Reid, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Hans Richter, Karl Peter Röhl, Ralph M. Rosenborg, Raphael Sala, Morton Livingston Schamberg, Louis Schanker, Hugo Scheiber, Karl Schmidt Rotluff, Georg Schrimpf, Martel Schwitenberg, Kurt Schwitters, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Victor Servranckx, Gino Severini, Walter Shirlaw, Walmar Shwab, Milly Steger, Käte Traumann Steinitz, Joseph Stella, John Henry Bradley Storrs, Fritz Stuckenberg, and Léopold Survage

Artists T-Z
Sophie Täuber-Arp, Arnold Topp, Joaquín Torres-García, Nadezhda Andreevina Udaltsova, Maria Uhden, Georges Valmier, Jay Van Everen, Nicholas Vasilieff, Jacques Villon, Heinrich Johann Vogeler, Walther Wahlstedt, Abraham Walkowitz, Max Weber, and Magnus Zeller

Dreyer & Nicolle
Frierich Adolf Dreyer and Emile Nicolle

Back Matter
Table of Artists by National Origin and Other Groupings, Chronology, Partial List of Katherine Dreier's Private Collection: Works Not at Yale, Lectures and Programs under Auspices of the Société Anonyme, 1920-39, Exhibitions and Loans by the Société Anonyme, 1920-39, Exhibitions and Loans by the Société Anonyme after Its Gift to Yale in 1941, Index of Provenances, and Index of Titles

Yale Libraries

Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Letters and ephemera from the Société Anonyme are held at the Beinecke Library. For a quick overview, search Digital Images Online using Katherine S. Dreier. The Beinecke's collection further comprises literary papers, early manuscripts, and rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences.

Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives
Manuscripts and Archives contains over 1,700 collections of personal and family papers and organizational records. It also includes the Yale University Archives, which serve as the repository for all records of the University with historical, administrative, or community significance.

Yale Film Study Center
The Center is an excellent resource for early modern films. It has a vast collection of film titles in DVD and VHS format, as well as scripts, books, and other reference material.

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Artists' Foundations

Archipenko Foundation
The Archipenko Foundation works to support the scholarship and exhibition of the works and life of modern sculptor Alexander Archipenko.

The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
The Albers Foundation aims to promote the achievements of Josef and Anni Albers, as well as the aesthetic and philosophical principles they followed.

The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal
This site presents news features, articles, interviews, and short notes relating to Duchamp and his circle of contemporaries.

Man Ray Trust
The Man Ray Trust holds an extensive collection of the artist's original work and controls the reproductive rights to all of his creations.

Selected Readings

Altshuler, Bruce. The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Barr, Alfred H., Jr. Cubism and Abstract Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936.

Bohan, Ruth L. The Société Anonyme's Brooklyn Exhibition: Katherine Dreier and Modernism in America. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1982.

Cohen-Solal, Annie. Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867–New York 1948. Translated by Laurie Hurwitz-Attias. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

Corn, Wanda. The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915–1935. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Davidson, Abraham A. Early American Modernist Painting, 1910–1935. New York: Harper and Row, 1981.

Dickerman, Leah, ed. The Dada Seminars. New York: Distributed Art, 2005.

Dreier, Katherine S. Three Lectures on Modern Art. New York: Philosophical Library, 1949.

______. Western Art and the New Era: An Introduction to Modern Art. New York: Brentano's, 1923.

Dreier, Katherine S., and Marcel Duchamp. Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920. Edited by George Heard Hamilton. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950.

Duchamp, Marcel. Affect/Marcel: The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp. Edited by Francis M. Naumann and Hector Obalk. Translated by Jill Taylor. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000.

Foster, Stephen C., ed. Dada/Dimensions. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985.

Greenough, Sarah, ed. Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art and Bulfinch Press, 2000.

Gross, Jennifer R., ed. The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University Press, 2006.

Hartley, Marsden. Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets. New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc., 1921. (Reprinted New York: Hacker, 1972.)

Herbert, Robert L., Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, eds. The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Joselit, David. Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp, 1910–1941. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.

Kachur, Lewis. Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition Installations. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.

Kantor, Sybil Gordon. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Lynes, Russell. Good Old Modern: An Intimate Portrait of The Museum of Modern Art. New York: Atheneum, 1973.

Naumann, Francis M. New York Dada, 1915–1923. New York: Abrams, 1994.

Naumann, Francis M., and Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996.

Platt, Susan Noyes. Modernism in the 1920s: Interpretations of Modern Art in New York from Expressionism to Constructivism. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985.

Man Ray. Self Portrait. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1963.

Sanouillet, Michel, and Elmer Peterson, eds. Salt Seller: The Writings of Marcel Duchamp (Marchand du Sel). New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Sawelson-Gorse, Naomi, ed. Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.

Société Anonyme (the First Museum of Modern Art, 1920–1944): Selected Publications. 3 vols. New York: Arno Reprints, 1972.

Tashjian, Dickran. A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920–1950. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995.

______. Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910–1925. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1975.

Tuchman, Maurice, Judi Freeman, and Carel Blotkamp. The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, 1890–1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and New York: Abbeville, 1986.

Zayas, Marius de. How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York. Edited by Francis M. Naumann. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.

Quicktime Tour

The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America debuted at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, on April 23, 2006. The installation at the Hammer included a replication of the Société's 1920 inaugural exhibition and selections from its 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art at the Brooklyn Museum.