Events from the year 1923 in art. Events March 20 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso. May 8 – Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition. Publication of The Art Spirit by Robert Henri. English industrialist and collector Samuel Courtauld acquires the first painting by Paul Cézanne to be purchased for a British collection, Still life with Plaster Cupid (c.1894). Chaïm Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses. A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence. East London Group forms as an amateur art club in the East End of London. Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum dedicated to the fine arts. Remington Art Memorial established in Ogdensburg, New York. Harwood Museum of Art established in Taos, New Mexico. Beaux Arts Gallery established in London by Frederick and Helen Lessore. Awards Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – Portrait of a Lady Works Max Beckmann – Dance in Baden-Baden Constantin Brâncuși – Bird in Space (sculpture; first version) Felice Casorati – Meriggio (Noon) Tamara de Lempicka – Les Deux amies Robert Delaunay – Portrait of Tristan Tzara Marcel Duchamp – The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (completed) Max Ernst – Pietà or Revolution by Night M. C. Escher – Dolphins (woodcut) George Grosz – Ecce Homo (portfolio of lithographs) Auguste Herbin – Bowls Players Marguerite Huré – Stained glass windows at Église Notre-Dame du Raincy Wassily Kandinsky – On White II Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Sleigh Ride Sir John Lavery – The Red Rose Sir Bertram Mackennal Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun (Australia House, London) Mother Courage (war memorial, Caledonian Club, London) Eton College War Memorial (male nude, now National Gallery of Victoria, Australia) Henri Matisse Odalisque with Raised Arms Window at Tangier Mikhail Nesterov – Girl by the Pool William Orpen – To the Unknown British Soldier in France (first finished state) Pablo Picasso The Pipes of Pan Paulo on a Donkey Man Ray – Object to Be Destroyed (destroyed 1957) Gerrit Rietveld – Red and Blue Chair (colours added in De