Dada in New York

Marcel Duchamp,1887- 1968: French painter influenced by Cezanne. He later turned to the Cubist and Futurist styles. Causing a sensation at the 1913 New York Armory Show with his "Nude descending a staircase. After 1918 he became a founder of the Dada movement in New York. He was also the inventor of "ready-made" art, treating commonplace objects as works of art; and he constructed many non functional machines. In 1920, with Kaherine Dreier and Man Ray, he founded the "Société Anonyme" , an art center in New York which became the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in 1929.

Alfred Stieglitz, 1864-1946: Born in Hoboken, New Jersey on January 1, 1864 Stieglitz would soon become a major influence in all the visual arts, especially photography. In 1883, Stieglitz moved to Berlin where he received training in photography and worked as a lab assistant. Stieglitz returned to New York City in 1890, and continued his work in photography. He later operated three galleries including 291, The Intimate Gallery, and An American Place, where he displayed photography and modernist paintings.