1940 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 27, 1940–Jan 8, 1941
Cover for 1940 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting catalogue
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Artists
- Edmund Archer
- John Atherton
- A. S. Baylinson
- Gifford R. Beal
- Cecil C. Bell
- Thomas Hart Benton
- Saul Berman
- George Biddle
- Henry Billings
- Isabel Bishop
- Harold Black
- Arnold Blanch
- Lucile Blanch
- Aaron Bohrod
- Louis Bouché
- Manuel Bromberg
- Alexander Brook
- Edith Bry
- Audrey Buller
- Charles Burchfield
- Paul Burlin
- David Burliuk
- Andrew Butler
- Paul Cadmus
- John Carroll
- Clarence Holbrook Carter
- Federico Castellón
- Daniel R. Celentano
- Francis Celentano
- Francis Chapin
- Nicolai Cikovsky
- Paul Lewis Clemens
- Jon Corbino
- Russell Cowles
- Ralston Crawford
- Francis Criss
- John Steuart Curry
- Lewis C. Daniel
- Randall Davey
- Stuart Davis
- Horace Day
- Julio de Diego
- John Stockton deMartelly
- Lamar Dodd
- Olin Dows
- Otis Dozier
- Werner Drewes
- Guy Pène Du Bois
- Yvonne Du Bois
- Emlen Etting
- Philip Evergood
- Dean Fausett
- Lyonel Feininger
- Ernest Fiene
- Mary Fife
- Tully Filmus
- Vaughn Flannery
- David Fredenthal
- Karl Free
- Don Freeman
- Jared French
- Emil Ganso
- Oronzo Gasparo
- E. Bart Gerald
- Marshall Glasier
- Lloyd Lozes Goff
- Arshile Gorky
- Adolph Gottlieb
- William Gropper
- George Grosz
- Louis Guglielmi
- Robert Gwathmey
- Marsden Hartley
- Bertram Hartman
- Harry Hering
- Stefan Hirsch
- Edward Hopper
- Peter Hurd
- Joe Jones
- Mervin Jules
- Morris Kantor
- Bernard Karfiol
- Paul Kelpe
- Rockwell Kent
- Elenora Kissel
- Michael Klein
- John Koch
- Walt Kuhn
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Richard Lahey
- Edward Laning
- Lawrence H. Lebduska
- Doris Lee
- Julian Levi
- Jack Levine
- Charles Locke
- John Ward Lockwood
- Frank London
- Molly Luce
- Luigi Lucioni
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- George Marinko
- Reginald Marsh
- Fletcher Martin
- Henry Mattson
- Jan Matulka
- William Ashby McCloy
- Henry Lee McFee
- Austin Mecklem
- Felicia Meyer
- Herbert Meyer
- Harriette G. Miller
- Kenneth Hayes Miller
- Patrick Morgan
- Jerome Myers
- Frank Osborn
- William C. Palmer
- Joseph Pandolfini
- Fred Papsdorf
- Lloyd Parsons
- Waldo Peirce
- Joseph Pollet
- Henry Varnum Poor
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Walter Quirt
- Harold Rabinovitz
- Anton Refregier
- Edna Reindel
- Louis Ribak
- Boardman Robinson
- Paul Rohland
- Paul Starrett Sample
- Patsy Santo
- Louis Schanker
- Saul Schary
- Katherine Schmidt
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Georges Schreiber
- Zoltan Sepeshy
- Daniel Serra
- Ben Shahn
- Frederick Emanuel Shane
- Charles Sheeler
- Henrietta Shore
- Clyde Singer
- Mitchell Siporin
- John Sloan
- Lawrence Beal Smith
- Moses Soyer
- Raphael Soyer
- Niles Spencer
- Bernard Joseph Steffen
- Harry Sternberg
- Maurice Sterne
- Chuzo Tamotzu
- Manuel J. Tolegian
- Bradley Walker Tomlin
- Dorothy Varian
- Joseph P. Vorst
- Franklin C. Watkins
- Nan Watson
- Max Weber
- Harold Weston
- Esther Williams
- Zsissly
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In the News
“It goes without saying that the exhibition is alive with contrasts. A Whitney annual can always be counted upon for that virtue.” —The New York Times
“The exhibition [. . .] is consistently interesting, if not phenomenal or stupendous.” —The New York Times
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