1945 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 27, 1945–Jan 10, 1946
Cover for 1945 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting catalogue
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Artists
- Conrad A. Albrizio
- Revington Arthur
- John Atherton
- Darrel Austin
- Herbert Barnet
- William Baziotes
- Romare Bearden
- Maurice Becker
- Ben-Zion
- Eugene Berman
- Henry Billings
- Isabel Bishop
- Arnold Blanch
- Arbit Blatas
- Aaron Bohrod
- Louise Bourgeois
- Raymond Breinin
- Byron Browne
- Emerson C. Burkhart
- Paul Burlin
- David Burliuk
- Paul Cadmus
- Kenneth Callahan
- Nicolai Cikovsky
- Francis Colburn
- Howard Cook
- Russell Cowles
- Ralston Crawford
- John Steuart Curry
- Virginia Cuthbert
- Lewis C. Daniel
- Julio de Diego
- Joseph De Martini
- Edwin Dickinson
- Arthur Dove
- Otis Dozier
- Guy Pène Du Bois
- Max Ernst
- Philip Evergood
- Dean Fausett
- Lyonel Feininger
- William Fett
- Ernest Fiene
- Tully Filmus
- Joseph Floch
- Seymour Fogel
- Maurice Freedman
- Suzy Frelinghuysen
- E. Bart Gerald
- Arshile Gorky
- Douglas W. Gorsline
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Harry Gottlieb
- Balcomb Greene
- Marion Greenwood
- William Gropper
- Sidney Gross
- Philip Guston
- Robert Gwathmey
- Lily Harmon
- John Hartell
- Léon Hartl
- Stanley William Hayter
- John Heliker
- Jean Helion
- Joseph Hirsch
- Hans Hofmann
- Carl Holty
- Edward Hopper
- Walter Houmere
- Charles Houghton Howard
- Lee Jackson
- Joe Jones
- Wendell Jones
- Mervin Jules
- Bernard Karfiol
- Leon Kelly
- Yeffe Kimball
- Frank Kleinholz
- Karl Knaths
- Benjamin Kopman
- Walt Kuhn
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Edward Laning
- Doris Lee
- Fernand Léger
- Julian Levi
- Jack Levine
- L. Jean Liberte
- Charles Locke
- Carlos Lopez
- Molly Luce
- Loren MacIver
- Wray Manning
- John Marin
- Reginald Marsh
- Fletcher Martin
- Martyl
- Matta
- Henry Mattson
- Henry Lee McFee
- Edward Melcarth
- Sigmund Menkes
- Kenneth Hayes Miller
- Peter Miller
- Johannes Molzahn
- George L. K. Morris
- Robert Motherwell
- B. J. O. Nordfeldt
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Arthur Osver
- Amédée Ozenfant
- William C. Palmer
- I. Rice Pereira
- George Picken
- Horace Pippin
- Joseph Pollet
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Karl Priebe
- Walter Quirt
- Abraham Rattner
- Anton Refregier
- Constance C. Richardson
- Kurt Roesch
- Charles Rosen
- Mark Rothko
- Andrée Ruellan
- Attilio Salemme
- Lucia Autorino Salemme
- Louis Schanker
- Josef Scharl
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Georges Schreiber
- Kurt Seligmann
- Zoltan Sepeshy
- Ben Shahn
- Charles G. Shaw
- Everett Shinn
- John Sloan
- Lawrence Beal Smith
- Miron Sokole
- Raphael Soyer
- Everett Spruce
- Theodoros Stamos
- Margaret Stark
- Harry Sternberg
- Harold Sterner
- Walter Stuempfig
- Dorothea Tanning
- Prentiss Hottel Taylor
- Richard Taylor
- Pavel Tchelitchew
- William Thon
- Mark Tobey
- Bradley Walker Tomlin
- Abram Tromka
- Nahum Tschacbasov
- Dorothy Varian
- Frede Vidar
- Joseph P. Vorst
- Howard Warshaw
- Max Weber
- Steve Wheeler
- Sol Wilson
- Karl Zerbe
In the News
“For whatever reason you care to assign, I found the show peculiarly well stocked with esthetic nourishment.” —The New York Times
“. . . for the most part the pictures are alive and fresh and challenging. I think that this is all in all perhaps the best annual the Whitney has ever produced.” —The New York Times
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