Marcel Duchamp and his Rotary Glass Plates in the Yale University Art Gallery during the exhibition Painting and Sculpture by the Directors of the Société Anonyme

~“Because a man is a manufacturer and makes excellent steel rails, does not guarantee him to be an authority on the manufacturing of silks, nor would we demand it. Yet we call upon the doctor to pass on the mental make-up of our modern artists, delighted when they pronounce them mad, or art historians to pass on the coming of a new era, when the whole training...

Katherine Sophie Dreier was sixty-four years old on October 11, 1941, when the Yale Corporation “voted, to accept with gratitude the paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture known as the ‘Collection of the Société Anonyme — Museum of Modern Art 1920’ offered to the University through Miss Katherine S. Dreier of West Redding, Connecticut, ... dated this day by...