It also put on this country's first comprehensive survey of postwar international art, at the Brooklyn Museum in 1926, three years before the Museum of Modern Art came into existence. The Société gave Alexander Archipenko, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Jacques Villon, and Louis Eilshemius their first one-man shows in America, helped to familiarize American viewers with the little known work of Piet Mondrian and Kurt Schwitters and sponsored traveling exhibitions, lectures by artists and critics, and other special events. It actually means "Corporation", but Duchamp thought it a fine name and later while the legal paperwork was being written up the "Inc." was added, making its English translation, "Corporation, Inc.". Man Ray picked the name " Société Anonyme", having seen it in French magazines, but knowing little French, assumed it referred to some anonymous society. Their galleries in their "first modest headquarters" were at 19 East 47th Street. Between 19 they held 80 exhibitions showing mostly Cubist and abstract art. The society sponsored lectures, concerts, publications, and exhibitions of modern art, including the International Exhibition of Modern Art at the Brooklyn Museum in 1926. was an art organization founded in 1920 by Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. Smithsonian Institution - Archives of American Art.) John Henry Bradley Storrs papers, 1847-1987. Catalog cover for the 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art.
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