1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings
Apr 2–May 8, 1949
Cover for 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings catalogue
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Artists
- George Aarons
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
- Humbert Albrizio
- Leo Amino
- Alexander Archipenko
- Saul Baizerman
- Oliver O’Connor Barrett
- William Baziotes
- C. Whitney Bender
- Ward Bennett
- Ben-Zion
- Eugene Berman
- Isabel Bishop
- Raymond Breinin
- William Brice
- Douglas E. Brown
- C. Ludwig Brumme
- Charles Burchfield
- Paul Cadmus
- Doris Caesar
- Alexander Calder
- Kenneth Callahan
- Vincent Campanella
- George Cerny
- Nicolai Cikovsky
- George Constant
- Jon Corbino
- Lucille Corcos
- Charles Culver
- Charles Cutler
- Giglio Dante
- Alice Decker
- José de Creeft
- Adolf Dehn
- Jean De Marco
- Koren Der Harootian
- José de Rivera
- Nathaniel Dirk
- Robert Drew
- Lu Duble
- Frank Duncan
- Hazard Durfee
- Winslow B. Eaves
- Ethel Edwards
- Jimmy Ernst
- Philip Evergood
- Alfeo Faggi
- Clara Fasano
- Lyonel Feininger
- Herbert Ferber
- Louis G. Ferstadt
- Paul Fiene
- Perle Fine
- David Fredenthal
- Jared French
- Ruth Gikow
- Maurice Glickman
- Vincent Glinsky
- Xavier Gonzalez
- Aaron J. Goodelman
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Morris Graves
- Dorothea Greenbaum
- Stephen Greene
- Oliver Grimley
- Peter Grippe
- Chaim Gross
- George Grosz
- David Hare
- Minna Harkavy
- Bertram Hartman
- Rosella Hartman
- Cleo Hartwig
- Stanley William Hayter
- Milton Hebald
- Albert Heckman
- John Heliker
- Fannie Hillsmith
- Charles Hopkinson
- Milton Horn
- John Hovannes
- Lee Jackson
- Mitchell Jamieson
- Randolph W. Johnston
- Joe Jones
- Nathaniel Kaz
- William Kienbusch
- Dong Kingman
- Henry Koerner
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Lawrence Kupferman
- Frances Kent Lamont
- Lillian Landis
- Edward Laning
- Ibram Lassaw
- Robert Laurent
- Jacob Lawrence
- Wesley Lea
- Irving Lehman
- Michael Lekakis
- Jack Levine
- Alfred Levitt
- Jacques Lipchitz
- Jacob Lipkin
- Seymour Lipton
- John Ward Lockwood
- Joseph Lonzar
- Loren MacIver
- Oronzio Maldarelli
- Howard Mandel
- Boris Margo
- Berta Margoulies
- De Hirsh Margules
- John Marin
- Reginald Marsh
- Julian Martin
- Matta
- Miriam McKinnie
- Burr Miller
- Bruce Mitchell
- Hans Moller
- Robert Motherwell
- Reuben Nakian
- Isamu Noguchi
- Nuala (Elsa De Brun)
- William Pachner
- I. Rice Pereira
- Harley Perkins
- Simmons Persons
- Gabor Peterdi
- Alton Pickens
- Ogden M. Pleissner
- Richard Pousette-Dart
- Raymond Puccinelli
- André Racz
- Edna Reindel
- Hugo Robus
- Theodore Roszak
- Mark Rothko
- Benjamin Rowland
- Henry Rox
- Robert Russin
- Lucia Autorino Salemme
- Charles Salerno
- Hélène Sardeau
- Henry Schnakenberg
- William N. Schneider
- Henry Schonbauer
- Georges Schreiber
- William Seitz
- Ben Shahn
- Millard Sheets
- Mitchell Siporin
- John Sloan
- Louis Slobodkin
- Hannah Small
- David Smith
- Sibley Smith
- Mitzi Solomon
- Eugene Speicher
- Theodoros Stamos
- Saul Steinberg
- Edward John Stevens Jr.
- Ary Stillman
- Beatrice Stone
- John W. Taylor
- William Thon
- Mark Tobey
- Trajan
- Charles Umlauf
- Polygnotos Vagis
- Rudolf Von Huhn
- Vaclav Vytlacil
- Abraham Walkowitz
- Carl Walters
- Heinz Warneke
- Howard Warshaw
- Jane Wasey
- Cady Wells
- Nat Werner
- Anita Weschler
- Wilson
- Arline Wingate
- Nina Winkel
- Andrew Wyeth
- Karl Zerbe
- William Zorach
In the News
“. . . the 1949 annual is one of the liveliest and most comprehensive in the series.” —The New York Times
“. . . most of the work, from naturalism to sheer abstraction, is sound and thoughtful and technically of admitted ability.” —The New York Times
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