1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Dec 16, 1949–Feb 5, 1950
View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.
Artists
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Mark Tobey
11 works in the collection
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Edmund Archer
3 works in the collection
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Bernard Arnest
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David Aronson
2 works in the collection
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Virginia Banks
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William Baziotes
6 works in the collection
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Max Beckmann
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C. Whitney Bender
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Eugene Berman
3 works in the collection
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Louis Bosa
2 works in the collection
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Dorr Bothwell
2 works in the collection
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William Brice
4 works in the collection
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Alexander Brook
9 works in the collection
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Byron Browne
7 works in the collection
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Vincent Campanella
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Federico Castellón
97 works in the collection
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William Chaiken
1 work in the collection
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Edward Chavez
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Fred Conway
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Virginia Cuthbert
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Willem de Kooning
19 works in the collection
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Eleanor De Laittre
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Maurice Douek
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Guy Pène Du Bois
56 works in the collection
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Frank Duncan
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Hazard Durfee
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Harry Engel
1 work in the collection
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Jimmy Ernst
6 works in the collection
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Max Ernst
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Philip Evergood
12 works in the collection
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Remo Farruggio
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Lyonel Feininger
7 works in the collection
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Ernest Fiene
19 works in the collection
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Perle Fine
4 works in the collection
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Seymour Fogel
1 work in the collection
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Frederick Franck
2 works in the collection
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Jared French
29 works in the collection
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Thomas Fransioli Jr.
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A.E. Gallatin
2 works in the collection
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Lee Gatch
2 works in the collection
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Kahlil Gibran
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Augustus Goertz
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Adolph Gottlieb
11 works in the collection
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Cleve Gray
4 works in the collection
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Balcomb Greene
4 works in the collection
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Werner Groshans
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George Grosz
8 works in the collection
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Louis Guglielmi
4 works in the collection
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Robert Gwathmey
2 works in the collection
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Léon Hartl
4 works in the collection
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Stanley William Hayter
3 works in the collection
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Fannie Hillsmith
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Hans Hofmann
7 works in the collection
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Walter Houmere
1 work in the collection
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Lee Jackson
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Mitchell Jamieson
1 work in the collection
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Mervin Jules
4 works in the collection
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Morris Kantor
14 works in the collection
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Weldon Kees
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Earl Kerkam
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Karl Knaths
7 works in the collection
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Henry Koerner
4 works in the collection
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi
77 works in the collection
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Joseph L. Lasker
2 works in the collection
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Leonid
1 work in the collection
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Julian Levi
3 works in the collection
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Jack Levine
5 works in the collection
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Michael Loew
1 work in the collection
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Nan Lurie
1 work in the collection
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Dan Lutz
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Loren MacIver
6 works in the collection
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Howard Mandel
1 work in the collection
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Leo Manso
2 works in the collection
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Boris Margo
85 works in the collection
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John Marin
28 works in the collection
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William C. McNulty
2 works in the collection
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Joseph Meert
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Edward Melcarth
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Kenneth Hayes Miller
134 works in the collection
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Edward Millman
2 works in the collection
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Paul Mommer
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Randall Morgan
1 work in the collection
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Carl Morris
4 works in the collection
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George L. K. Morris
7 works in the collection
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Robert Motherwell
19 works in the collection
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Walter Murch
11 works in the collection
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Kenneth Nack
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B. J. O. Nordfeldt
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Georgia O'Keeffe
13 works in the collection
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Arthur Osver
1 work in the collection
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I. Rice Pereira
8 works in the collection
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Alton Pickens
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Jackson Pollock
17 works in the collection
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Henry Varnum Poor
2 works in the collection
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Gregorio Prestopino
2 works in the collection
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Easton Pribble
1 work in the collection
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Leo Quanchi
1 work in the collection
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Walter Quirt
1 work in the collection
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Steve Raffo
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George Ratkai
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Abraham Rattner
2 works in the collection
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Anton Refregier
2 works in the collection
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Louis Ribak
4 works in the collection
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Kurt Roesch
1 work in the collection
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Herman Rose
3 works in the collection
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Mark Rothko
7 works in the collection
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Andrée Ruellan
6 works in the collection
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Alfred Russell
2 works in the collection
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Kay Sage
4 works in the collection
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Attilio Salemme
4 works in the collection
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Henry Schnakenberg
12 works in the collection
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Ethel Schwabacher
2 works in the collection
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Manfred Schwartz
2 works in the collection
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Charles Seliger
7 works in the collection
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Kurt Seligmann
3 works in the collection
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John Sennhauser
1 work in the collection
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Ben Shahn
13 works in the collection
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Charles Sheeler
31 works in the collection
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Sarai Sherman
2 works in the collection
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Mitchell Siporin
5 works in the collection
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John Sloan
164 works in the collection
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Judson Smith
1 work in the collection
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William T. Snaith
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Raphael Soyer
50 works in the collection
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Eugene Speicher
14 works in the collection
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Niles Spencer
6 works in the collection
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Everett Spruce
1 work in the collection
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Theodoros Stamos
6 works in the collection
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Harry Sternberg
19 works in the collection
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Hedda Sterne
8 works in the collection
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Walter Stuempfig
2 works in the collection
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Reuben Tam
3 works in the collection
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Yves Tanguy
3 works in the collection
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Frederic Taubes
1 work in the collection
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Victor Thall
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Bradley Walker Tomlin
6 works in the collection
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Anthony Toney
1 work in the collection
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George Tooker
3 works in the collection
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Nahum Tschacbasov
2 works in the collection
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Vaclav Vytlacil
16 works in the collection
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Howard Warshaw
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Panos Ghikas
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William E. Hentschel
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Charles Augustus Smith
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Erika Weihs
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Franklin C. Watkins
3 works in the collection
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Steve Wheeler
5 works in the collection
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Sol Wilson
3 works in the collection
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Emerson Woelffer
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Joe Wolins
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Francis Colburn
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Mervin Honig
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Charles W. Rain
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R. Maxil Ballinger
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James Grunbaum
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Theodore G. Haupt
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Knud Merrild
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Sally Fairchild
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Arthur Kraft
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Muriel Streeter
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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