Word: gauguins
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...young independents who organized the epochal Armory Show in 1913 -- Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, Walt Kuhn and others -- made sure that Ryder was the only American to share its central galleries with the new European masters: Matisse, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh. "There's only Ryder in American painting," remarked Kuhn. "No artist ever used more of the vital energies of the imagination than Ryder," wrote Marsden Hartley in 1936, "and no one was ever truer to his experience . . . One finds his elements so perfectly true that even the moon herself must recognize them if she had time to look...