Group of artists founded in New York in 1911 with the aim
of finding suitable exhibition space for young American
artists. After preliminary meetings between the painters
Jerome Myers (1867–1940), Elmer MacRae (1875–1955), Walt Kuhn
(1877–1949) and others, a meeting was held at the Madison
Gallery on 16 December 1911 for the purpose of founding a new
artists’ organization. At a subsequent meeting on 2 January
1912 they elected officers and began to discuss exhibition
plans. The president, Julian Alden Weir, who had been elected
in absentia, resigned, however, and the leadership
passed to Arthur B. Davies
