1939 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Watercolors
Feb 22–Mar 15, 1939
Cover for 1939 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Watercolors catalogue
View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.
Artists
- Carlos Andreson
- Marianne Appel
- Peggy Bacon
- John J. Barsotti
- Cecil C. Bell
- Rainey Bennett
- Theresa F. Bernstein
- Virginia Berresford
- Lucile Blanch
- Aaron Bohrod
- Otto Botto
- Charles Burchfield
- Kenneth Callahan
- Charles Campbell
- Clarence Holbrook Carter
- Federico Castellón
- Howard Cook
- Lucille Corcos
- Russell Cowles
- Lee Brown Coye
- Thomas Craig
- Lewis C. Daniel
- Hubert Davis
- Horace Day
- Adolf Dehn
- Frank Di Gioia
- Nathaniel Dirk
- Stevan Dohanos
- Olin Dows
- Stuart Edie
- Louis G. Ferstadt
- Susan Frazier
- David Fredenthal
- Emil Ganso
- Bertram Goodman
- Harry Gottlieb
- Hardie Gramatky
- Perkins Harnly
- Abraham Harriton
- Edward Hopper
- Earl Horter
- Henry G. Keller
- Aline Kilham
- Josef Lenhard
- L. Jean Liberte
- John Ward Lockwood
- John Lonergan
- George Macrum
- Reginald Marsh
- Giovanni Martino
- Austin Mecklem
- Bruce Mitchell
- Simmons Persons
- Caroline Speare Rohland
- Paul Rohland
- Allen Saalburg
- Paul Starrett Sample
- Saul Schary
- Georges Schreiber
- Zoltan Sepeshy
- Millard Sheets
- Jean Paul Slusser
- Jacob Getlar Smith
- Harwood Steiger
- John W. Taylor
- Prentiss Hottel Taylor
- James B. Turnbull
- Ernest Walker
- Max Weber
- John Whorf
- William Zorach
In the News
“There is substance here. There are fresh ideas. Not all of them may be ‘important’ ideas, and a few of them may be deemed pretty nebulous or pretty far-fetched. But the walls look alive.” —The New York Times
“. . . upon the whole a heartening—in spots a really fine and impressive—show of water-colors.” —The New York Times
“. . . it is indeed good news when a large group exhibition maintains so high a standard.” —Parnassus
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