1947 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Dec 6, 1947–Jan 25, 1948
Cover for 1947 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting catalogue
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Artists
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
- Bernard Arnest
- David Aronson
- Carl Ashby
- William Baziotes
- Romare Bearden
- Eugene Berman
- Isabel Bishop
- Arnold Blanch
- Aaron Bohrod
- Louis Bosa
- Louis Bouché
- Louise Bourgeois
- Raymond Breinin
- Alexander Brook
- Carlyle Brown
- Byron Browne
- Audrey Buller
- Paul Burlin
- Kenneth Callahan
- Federico Castellón
- Marc Chagall
- Edward Chavez
- Francis Colburn
- Fred Conway
- Aleta Cornelius
- Ralston Crawford
- Virginia Cuthbert
- Norman Daly
- Stuart Davis
- Julio de Diego
- Daniel Dickerson
- Werner Drewes
- Guy Pène Du Bois
- Harry Engel
- Philip Evergood
- Kenneth Evett
- Ernest Fiene
- Perle Fine
- James Fitzgerald
- Joseph Floch
- Karl E. Fortess
- Esteban Francés
- Seymour Franks
- Thomas Fransioli Jr.
- Jared French
- Martin Friedman
- E. Bart Gerald
- Charles Gilbert
- Arshile Gorky
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Balcomb Greene
- Stephen Greene
- William Gropper
- Sidney Gross
- Louis Guglielmi
- Philip Guston
- Robert Gwathmey
- Carl Hall
- Leah R. Hamilton
- Hananiah Harari
- Stanley William Hayter
- Charles Heaney
- John Heliker
- Hopkins Hensel
- Joseph Hirsch
- Hans Hofmann
- Carl Holty
- Walter Houmere
- John Langley Howard
- Lee Jackson
- Martin Jackson
- Edward Powis Jones
- Wendell Jones
- Mervin Jules
- Gerome Kamrowski
- Morris Kantor
- Bernard Karfiol
- Arthur Kaufmann
- Karl Knaths
- Henry Koerner
- Walt Kuhn
- Edward Laning
- Joseph L. Lasker
- Doris Lee
- Jack Levine
- Molly Luce
- Eugene Ludins
- Loren MacIver
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- Boris Margo
- John Marin
- Reginald Marsh
- Fletcher Martin
- Matta
- Henry Mattson
- Edward Melcarth
- Sigmund Menkes
- Kenneth Hayes Miller
- Edward Millman
- Hans Moller
- Johannes Molzahn
- Paul Mommer
- Carl Morris
- George Morrison
- Robert Motherwell
- Ralph Nelson
- Arthur Osver
- Amédée Ozenfant
- Lloyd Parsons
- John C. Pellew
- Albert Pels
- I. Rice Pereira
- Bernard Perlin
- George Picken
- Joseph Pollet
- Jackson Pollock
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Steve Raffo
- Abraham Rattner
- Edward A. Reep
- Ad Reinhardt
- Philip Reisman
- Boardman Robinson
- Herman Rose
- Mark Rothko
- Kay Sage
- Attilio Salemme
- Harry W. Scheuch
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Max Schnitzler
- Georges Schreiber
- Manfred Schwartz
- Kurt Seligmann
- Zoltan Sepeshy
- Ben Shahn
- Charles G. Shaw
- Charles Sheeler
- Mitchell Siporin
- John Sloan
- Charles Augustus Smith
- Moses Soyer
- Raphael Soyer
- Eugene Speicher
- Niles Spencer
- Everett Spruce
- Theodoros Stamos
- Philip Stapp
- Rosalyn Stern
- Walter Stuempfig
- Rufino Tamayo
- Yves Tanguy
- William Thon
- Mark Tobey
- Bradley Walker Tomlin
- George Tooker
- Dorothy Varian
- Max Weber
- Steve Wheeler
- Sol Wilson
- Andrew Wyeth
- Leon Zouté
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In the News
“Both in color and in subject style matter—and in stridently stressed design also—the exhibition is a bit on the clamorous side.” —The New York Times
“. . . a decidedly stimulating event, representing the cross-currents of art today from realism to nonobjectivism.” —The New York Times
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