1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Dec 16, 1949–Feb 5, 1950
Cover for 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting catalogue
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Artists
- Edmund Archer
- Bernard Arnest
- David Aronson
- R. Maxil Ballinger
- Virginia Banks
- William Baziotes
- Max Beckmann
- C. Whitney Bender
- Eugene Berman
- Louis Bosa
- Dorr Bothwell
- William Brice
- Alexander Brook
- Byron Browne
- Vincent Campanella
- Federico Castellón
- William Chaiken
- Edward Chavez
- Francis Colburn
- Fred Conway
- Virginia Cuthbert
- Willem de Kooning
- Eleanor De Laittre
- Maurice Douek
- Guy Pène Du Bois
- Frank Duncan
- Hazard Durfee
- Harry Engel
- Jimmy Ernst
- Max Ernst
- Philip Evergood
- Sally Fairchild
- Remo Farruggio
- Lyonel Feininger
- Ernest Fiene
- Perle Fine
- Seymour Fogel
- Frederick Franck
- Thomas Fransioli Jr.
- Jared French
- A.E. Gallatin
- Lee Gatch
- Panos Ghikas
- Kahlil Gibran
- Augustus Goertz
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Cleve Gray
- Balcomb Greene
- Werner Groshans
- George Grosz
- James Grunbaum
- Louis Guglielmi
- Robert Gwathmey
- Léon Hartl
- Theodore G. Haupt
- Stanley William Hayter
- William E. Hentschel
- Fannie Hillsmith
- Hans Hofmann
- Mervin Honig
- Walter Houmere
- Lee Jackson
- Mitchell Jamieson
- Mervin Jules
- Morris Kantor
- Weldon Kees
- Earl Kerkam
- Karl Knaths
- Henry Koerner
- Arthur Kraft
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Joseph L. Lasker
- Leonid
- Julian Levi
- Jack Levine
- Michael Loew
- Nan Lurie
- Dan Lutz
- Loren MacIver
- Howard Mandel
- Leo Manso
- Boris Margo
- John Marin
- William C. McNulty
- Joseph Meert
- Edward Melcarth
- Knud Merrild
- Kenneth Hayes Miller
- Edward Millman
- Paul Mommer
- Randall Morgan
- Carl Morris
- George L. K. Morris
- Robert Motherwell
- Walter Murch
- Kenneth Nack
- B. J. O. Nordfeldt
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Arthur Osver
- I. Rice Pereira
- Alton Pickens
- Jackson Pollock
- Henry Varnum Poor
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Easton Pribble
- Leo Quanchi
- Walter Quirt
- Steve Raffo
- Charles W. Rain
- George Ratkai
- Abraham Rattner
- Anton Refregier
- Louis Ribak
- Kurt Roesch
- Herman Rose
- Mark Rothko
- Andrée Ruellan
- Alfred Russell
- Kay Sage
- Attilio Salemme
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Ethel Schwabacher
- Manfred Schwartz
- Charles Seliger
- Kurt Seligmann
- John Sennhauser
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Sarai Sherman
- Mitchell Siporin
- John Sloan
- Charles Augustus Smith
- Judson Smith
- William T. Snaith
- Raphael Soyer
- Eugene Speicher
- Niles Spencer
- Everett Spruce
- Theodoros Stamos
- Harry Sternberg
- Hedda Sterne
- Muriel Streeter
- Walter Stuempfig
- Reuben Tam
- Yves Tanguy
- Frederic Taubes
- Victor Thall
- Mark Tobey
- Bradley Walker Tomlin
- Anthony Toney
- George Tooker
- Nahum Tschacbasov
- Vaclav Vytlacil
- Howard Warshaw
- Franklin C. Watkins
- Erika Weihs
- Steve Wheeler
- Sol Wilson
- Emerson Woelffer
- Joe Wolins
In the News
“The 1949 annual of contemporary American painting at the Whitney Museum [. . .] includes a larger proportion of abstraction, semi-abstraction and frankly experimental work than any of its predecessors. Not all of this work is good. Some of it seems to me pretty bad. But as a whole the show lives up to the Whitney’s avowed purpose of chronicling in its annuals what is going on in the contemporary field.” —The New York Times
“How much the Whitney has endeavored to keep in touch with the contemporary field, even in its most experimental and advanced phases, the 1949 annual bears witness.” —The New York Times
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