1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 14–Dec 12, 1944
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Artists
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
- Conrad A. Albrizio
- John Atherton
- Milton Avery
- Eugene Berman
- George Biddle
- Isabel Bishop
- Harold Black
- Arnold Blanch
- Arbit Blatas
- Julius Bloch
- Raymond Breinin
- Alexander Brook
- Audrey Buller
- Paul Burlin
- David Burliuk
- Paul Cadmus
- John Carroll
- James Chapin
- Nicolai Cikovsky
- Russell Cowles
- Ralston Crawford
- Lewis C. Daniel
- A. Mark Datz
- Julio de Diego
- Joseph De Martini
- Thomas Donnelly
- Arthur Dove
- Guy Pène Du Bois
- Yvonne Du Bois
- Emlen Etting
- Philip Evergood
- Sylvia Fein
- Ernest Fiene
- Tully Filmus
- Suzy Frelinghuysen
- Jared French
- Carl Gaertner
- Douglas W. Gorsline
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Harry Gottlieb
- Balcomb Greene
- Marion Greenwood
- William Gropper
- George Grosz
- Louis Guglielmi
- Philip Guston
- Robert Gwathmey
- Carl Hall
- Hananiah Harari
- Abraham Harriton
- Bertram Hartman
- Rosella Hartman
- Albert Heckman
- Norbert Heermann
- John Heliker
- Stefan Hirsch
- Alexandre Hogue
- Carl Holty
- Walter Houmere
- Charles Houghton Howard
- Peter Hurd
- Eric Isenburger
- Lee Jackson
- Joe Jones
- Mervin Jules
- Morris Kantor
- Bernard Karfiol
- Hilde Kayn
- Leon Kelly
- Georgina Klitgaard
- Karl Knaths
- John Koch
- Leon Kroll
- Walt Kuhn
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Lawrence H. Lebduska
- Rico Lebrun
- James Lechay
- Doris Lee
- Mac Le Sueur
- Julian Levi
- Jack Levine
- Charles Locke
- Erle Loran
- Molly Luce
- Eugene Ludins
- Dan Lutz
- Theodore Lux
- Loren MacIver
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- John Marin
- Fletcher Martin
- Martyl
- Henry Mattson
- Jan Matulka
- Henry Lee McFee
- Austin Mecklem
- Joseph Meert
- Edward Melcarth
- Felicia Meyer
- Herbert Meyer
- Kenneth Hayes Miller
- George L. K. Morris
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Arthur Osver
- Walter Pach
- Lloyd Parsons
- James Patrick
- Waldo Peirce
- Albert Pels
- I. Rice Pereira
- George Picken
- Horace Pippin
- Joseph Pollet
- Henry Varnum Poor
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Karl Priebe
- Walter Quirt
- Abraham Rattner
- Anton Refregier
- Constance C. Richardson
- Samuel Rosenberg
- Doris Rosenthal
- Andrée Ruellan
- Felix Ruvolo
- Paul Starrett Sample
- Patsy Santo
- Louis Schanker
- Saul Schary
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Max Schnitzler
- Antoinette Schulte
- William Schwartz
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Cordray Simmons
- Judson Smith
- Isaac Soyer
- Moses Soyer
- Raphael Soyer
- Eugene Speicher
- Niles Spencer
- Margaret Stark
- Algot Stenbery
- Harry Sternberg
- Harold Sterner
- Walter Stuempfig
- William Thoeny
- William Thon
- Bradley Walker Tomlin
- James B. Turnbull
- Paul Ullman
- Dorothy Varian
- Max Weber
- Steve Wheeler
- Esther Williams
- Stark Young
- Karl Zerbe
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In the News
“. . . the Whitney annual proves a stimulating event throughout. That is because it contains so much painting that is truly excellent, without respect to theme.” —The New York Times
“The exhibition [. . .] carries preponderantly an air of freshness.” —The New York Times
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