John Quinn was an Irish-American cognoscente of the art world and a lawyer in New York City who fought to overturn censorship laws restricting modern literature and art from entering the United States.
Photograph of works in a Quinn estate auction, New York, 1927
Vincent van Gogh, 1887, Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 41 × 33.5 cm, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Georges Seurat, 1888, Les Poseuses, ensemble, oil on canvas, 39.4 × 48.7 cm, Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The 69th Regiment Armory is a historic armory for the U.S. Army National Guard at 68 Lexington Avenue, between East 25th and 26th Streets, in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Completed in 1906, the armory was designed by the firm of Hunt & Hunt in the Beaux-Arts style. The building is a New York City designated landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark.
The entrance to the administration building
69th Regiment, New York National Guard, marching past armory entrance