1942 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Nov 24, 1942–Jan 6, 1943
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Artists
- Alexander Archipenko
- John Taylor Arms
- John Atherton
- Darrel Austin
- Peggy Bacon
- Richmond Barthé
- Cecil C. Bell
- Thomas Hart Benton
- Jane Berlandina
- Julien Binford
- Isabel Bishop
- Arnold Blanch
- Lucile Blanch
- Julius Bloch
- Louis Bouché
- Fiske Boyd
- Theodore Brenson
- Ann Brockman
- Alexander Brook
- Charles Burchfield
- David Burliuk
- Paul Cadmus
- Doris Caesar
- Alexander Calder
- John Carroll
- Clarence Holbrook Carter
- Federico Castellón
- Minna Citron
- Howard Cook
- Lucille Corcos
- Thomas Craig
- Lewis C. Daniel
- Andrew Dasburg
- Jo Davidson
- Gladys Rockmore Davis
- Stuart Davis
- José de Creeft
- Adolf Dehn
- Walt Dehner
- John Stockton deMartelly
- Joseph De Martini
- Guy Pène Du Bois
- Caroline Durieux
- Stephen Etnier
- Emlen Etting
- Philip Evergood
- Alfeo Faggi
- Dean Fausett
- Lyonel Feininger
- Herbert Ferber
- Ernest Fiene
- Paul Fiene
- Tully Filmus
- Karl E. Fortess
- David Fredenthal
- Don Freeman
- Oronzo Gasparo
- Marshall Glasier
- Maurice Glickman
- Lloyd Lozes Goff
- Aaron J. Goodelman
- Bertram Goodman
- Harry Gottlieb
- Morris Graves
- Balcomb Greene
- Marion Greenwood
- William Gropper
- Chaim Gross
- George Grosz
- Louis Guglielmi
- Philip Guston
- James Guy
- Robert Gwathmey
- Hananiah Harari
- Marsden Hartley
- Bertram Hartman
- Rosella Hartman
- Milton Hebald
- Albert Heckman
- John Heliker
- Joseph Hirsch
- Alexandre Hogue
- Edward Hopper
- Cecil Howard
- Joe Jones
- Wendell Jones
- Mervin Jules
- Bernard Karfiol
- Nathaniel Kaz
- Henry G. Keller
- Georgina Klitgaard
- Gene Kloss
- Karl Knaths
- Benjamin Kopman
- Leon Kroll
- Walt Kuhn
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Lawrence Kupferman
- Chet La More
- Armin Landeck
- Edward Laning
- Robert Laurent
- Lawrence H. Lebduska
- Rico Lebrun
- James Lechay
- Doris Lee
- Julian Levi
- Jack Levine
- Edmund D. Lewandowski
- Martin Lewis
- Charles Locke
- Thomas G. Lo Medico
- Louis Lozowick
- Eugene Ludins
- Guy Maccoy
- Oronzio Maldarelli
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- De Hirsh Margules
- Herman Maril
- John Marin
- Reginald Marsh
- Fletcher Martin
- Henry Mattson
- Henry Lee McFee
- Barse Miller
- Kenneth Hayes Miller
- Bruce Mitchell
- Maud Morgan
- George L. K. Morris
- Thomas W. Nason
- Jackson Lee Nesbitt
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Elizabeth Olds
- William C. Palmer
- Phil Paradise
- Augustus Peck
- Waldo Peirce
- George Picken
- Hobson Pittman
- Henry Varnum Poor
- Leonard Pytlak
- Luis Quintanilla
- Walter Quirt
- Anton Refregier
- Robert Riggs
- Boardman Robinson
- Hugo Robus
- Fermin Rocker
- Caroline Speare Rohland
- Paul Rohland
- Charles Rosen
- Doris Rosenthal
- Harry Rosin
- Theodore Roszak
- Andrée Ruellan
- Robert Russin
- Sally Ryan
- Saul Schary
- Katherine Schmidt
- Carl L. Schmitz
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Karl Schrag
- Georges Schreiber
- Manfred Schwartz
- Zoltan Sepeshy
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Millard Sheets
- John Sloan
- Louis Slobodkin
- Hannah Small
- David Smith
- Lawrence Beal Smith
- Miron Sokole
- Raphael Soyer
- Eugene Speicher
- Niles Spencer
- Benton Murdoch Spruance
- Everett Spruce
- Bernard Joseph Steffen
- Harry Sternberg
- Frederic Taubes
- Bradley Walker Tomlin
- Eugene Trentham
- James B. Turnbull
- Frank Utpatel
- Mariquita Villard
- Joseph P. Vorst
- Sylvia Wald
- Carl Walters
- Hyman Warsager
- Jane Wasey
- Franklin C. Watkins
- Colton Waugh
- Max Weber
- Stow Wengenroth
- Nat Werner
- Harry Wickey
- Esther Williams
- Reginald Wilson
- Arline Wingate
- Adolf Wolff
- Karl Zerbe
- William Zorach
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