This is a reproduction of "The Cubies' ABC" originally published in 1913.

All of the illustrations in the ORIGINAL FULL COLOR have been meticulously restored by the editor, Dr. Bruess.

The Cubies' ABC was written by Mary Mills Lyall with her husband, Earl Harvey Lyall, an architect, who drew the pictures. It was their only book.

Odd and very charming and witty little "child's" book poking fun at Cubism --"P" is for Picasso", etc--. The "stand-patters" are bewildered by all this Picasso and Matisse (who was not quite a cubist at all) stuff that is flying about art circles in 1913. They are doing realism and the rest of the world has gone Cubic on them. Had the writers of this book bought a Cubism piece in 1913 their grandchildren would be multi-millionares now.

The book was a reaction to the International Exhibition of Modern Art, aka the Armory Show, at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. Curated by The Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the Armory Show introduced Americans to modern art. The Cubies, a hive of triangulated creature who mock the classic and the conventional, dedicate their existence to the Association “To Which They Owe Their Incubation”.