1948 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings
Jan 31–Mar 21, 1948
View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.
Artists
- Humbert Albrizio
- Leo Amino
- Oliver O’Connor Barrett
- Richmond Barthé
- William Baziotes
- Romare Bearden
- Lu Belmont
- C. Whitney Bender
- Rainey Bennett
- Eugene Berman
- Isabel Bishop
- Peter Blume
- Aaron Bohrod
- Ross Braught
- Douglas E. Brown
- Byron Browne
- C. Ludwig Brumme
- Charles Burchfield
- Paul Cadmus
- Doris Caesar
- Kenneth Callahan
- Federico Castellón
- George Cerny
- Herman Cherry
- George Constant
- Robert Cronbach
- Stefano Cusumano
- Lewis C. Daniel
- Stuart Davis
- Horace Day
- José de Creeft
- Adolf Dehn
- Koren Der Harootian
- José de Rivera
- Nathaniel Dirk
- Blanche Dombek
- Ralph Dubin
- Lu Duble
- W. Doug Duncalfee
- Frank Duncan
- Hazard Durfee
- Winslow B. Eaves
- Phoebe Erickson
- Philip Evergood
- Lyonel Feininger
- Herbert Ferber
- William Fett
- Paul Fiene
- David Fredenthal
- Jared French
- Ruth Gikow
- Maurice Glickman
- Aaron J. Goodelman
- Arshile Gorky
- Morris Graves
- Simon Greco
- Dorothea Greenbaum
- Marion Greenwood
- Peter Grippe
- Chaim Gross
- George Grosz
- Ernest Guteman
- Raoul Hague
- Carl Hall
- David Hare
- Minna Harkavy
- Rosella Hartman
- Cleo Hartwig
- Milton Hebald
- Albert Heckman
- Diana Heiskell
- John Heliker
- Edward Hopper
- John Hovannes
- Robert B. Howard
- Paul Hyun
- Gerome Kamrowski
- Nathaniel Kaz
- Leon Kelly
- Adaline Kent
- William Kienbusch
- Dong Kingman
- Henry Koerner
- Joseph Konzal
- Chaim Koppelman
- Henry Kreis
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Lawrence Kupferman
- Frances Kent Lamont
- Edward Laning
- Ibram Lassaw
- Robert Laurent
- Jacob Lawrence
- Wesley Lea
- Rico Lebrun
- Michael Lekakis
- Jack Levine
- Jacques Lipchitz
- Jacob Lipkin
- Seymour Lipton
- Charles Locke
- Joseph Lonzar
- Erle Loran
- Gwen Creighton Lux
- Oronzio Maldarelli
- Boris Margo
- Berta Margoulies
- De Hirsh Margules
- John Marin
- Reginald Marsh
- Ezio Martinelli
- Matta
- Burr Miller
- Bruce Mitchell
- Hans Moller
- George L. K. Morris
- Robert Motherwell
- Isaac Lane Muse
- Fred Nagler
- Isamu Noguchi
- Bernard Olshan
- William C. Palmer
- Edwin A. Park
- Augustus Peck
- Bernard Perlin
- Helen Phillips
- Ogden M. Pleissner
- Carl O. Podszus
- Jackson Pollock
- Charles James Prendergast
- Raymond Puccinelli
- Ad Reinhardt
- Hugo Robus
- Wallace Rosenbauer
- Theodore Roszak
- Mark Rothko
- Henry Rox
- Charles Salerno
- Hélène Sardeau
- Louis Schanker
- Elsa Schmid
- Day Schnabel
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Georges Schreiber
- John Sennhauser
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Mitchell Siporin
- Hannah Small
- David Smith
- Mitzi Solomon
- Max Spivak
- Theodoros Stamos
- Harry Sternberg
- Edward John Stevens Jr.
- Ary Stillman
- Sahl Swarz
- Yves Tanguy
- Richard Taylor
- Pavel Tchelitchew
- Charles Umlauf
- John von Wicht
- Vaclav Vytlacil
- Carl Walters
- Marion Walton
- Heinz Warneke
- Howard Warshaw
- Jane Wasey
- Cady Wells
- Nat Werner
- Anita Weschler
- Nina Winkel
- Charles Clifford Wright
- Andrew Wyeth
- Vladimir Yoffe
- Karl Zerbe
- William Zorach
In the News
“There is a sharp and disconcerting line of cleavage in the Whitney’s sculpture annual, between fundamentally representational work, which numerically makes up about half the show, and experimental pieces which make up the other half.” —The New York Times
“One has a feeling that in the last year or two [. . .] sheer novelty is being increasingly stressed in the Whitney shows.” —The New York Times
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