The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters

New York: Anderson Galleries, 1916. Hardcover. VG. Paper on spine has almost completely deteriorated, but the binding is still nicely intact and the text block is clean bright and unmarked. In a custom plain paper and mylar jacket with with title crisply penned on spine.. Small quarto. Hardcover. Paper covered boards. 77, (1) pp, (2), 4 pp ads 16 bw repros. An original, not a reprint. Ray Smith has written a succinct description that defies improvement: "Pioneering exhibition of works by sixteen American modernists (Ben Benn, Thomas H. Benton, Oscar Bluemner, Andrew Dasburg, Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, S. MacDonald-Wright, John Marin, Alfred Maurer, Henry L. McFee, George F. Of, Man Ray, Morgan Russell, Charles Sheeler, A. Walkowitz, and William and Marguerite Zorach, with statements by each. Introduction, "What Is Modern Painting? by Willard Huntington Wright; forewords by Christian Brinton, Robert Henri, W.H. de B. Nelson, Alfred Stieglitz, John Weichsel and Willard Huntington Wright; bibliography."