CHAPTER V CONCLUSION
After the exhibition in New York City closed, the Armory Show moved on to Chicago (March 24-April 16) and Boston (April 23-May 14). The organizers took the next several months to return loaned works and settle sales and shipments, and much longer to close out the financial records. The AAPS never organized another exhibition and the Association was inactive over the next two years before it dissolved officially in 1916. 741 Today, one hundred years later, the Armory Show is still designated as the most important art exhibition held in the United States and scholars still herald its impact on the development of modern art in America. Clara Davidge and her husband, Henry Fitch Taylor, continued to back contemporary art. They gave material support to several people, including Armory Show artists William and Marguerite Zorach, Mary Foote, and Elmer MacRae. The Taylors participated in other modernist ventures, such as the Penguin Club, an art organization founded in 1916 by Walt Kuhn; the Sunwise Turn, a bookstore that promoted modern literature; and Katherine Dreier’s Société Anonyme. In 1920 Davidge and her husband moved from New York to Santa Fe, New Mexico to help establish a commune devoted to
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