1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 10–Dec 31, 1950
Cover for 1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting catalogue
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Artists
- Josef Albers
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
- Bernard Arnest
- David Aronson
- Virginia Banks
- William Baziotes
- Max Beckmann
- Ben-Zion
- Eugene Berman
- Isabel Bishop
- Arnold Blanch
- Ilya Bolotowsky
- Louis Bosa
- Henry Botkin
- Louis Bouché
- Alexander Brook
- James Brooks
- Byron Browne
- Fritz Bultman
- Paul Burlin
- Peter Busa
- Paul Cadmus
- Kenneth Callahan
- Edward Chavez
- William Congdon
- Robert Conover
- Fred Conway
- Russell Cowles
- Norman Daly
- Julio de Diego
- Willem de Kooning
- Guy Pène Du Bois
- Frank Duncan
- Dean Ellis
- Jimmy Ernst
- Philip Evergood
- Lyonel Feininger
- Ernest Fiene
- Louis Finkelstein
- Frederick Franck
- Gilbert A. Franklin
- Seymour Franks
- Sideo Fromboluti
- Naum Gabo
- Lee Gatch
- Fritz Glarner
- Augustus Goertz
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Simon Greco
- Barry Greenberg
- Balcomb Greene
- Gertrude Greene
- Stephen Greene
- George Grosz
- Louis Guglielmi
- Philip Guston
- James Guy
- Robert Gwathmey
- J. M. Hanson
- Stanley William Hayter
- John Heliker
- Fannie Hillsmith
- Hans Hofmann
- Bernard Karfiol
- Weldon Kees
- Leon Kelly
- Karl Knaths
- Henry Koerner
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Joseph L. Lasker
- Rico Lebrun
- Leonid
- William Lester
- Jack Levine
- Molly Luce
- Eugene Ludins
- Loren MacIver
- Howard Mandel
- Leo Manso
- Boris Margo
- John Marin
- Reginald Marsh
- Henry Mattson
- Joseph Meert
- Edward Melcarth
- Kenneth Hayes Miller
- Edward Millman
- Randall Morgan
- George L. K. Morris
- Robert Motherwell
- Seong Moy
- Walter Murch
- Kenneth Nack
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Arthur Osver
- Amédée Ozenfant
- William Pachner
- William C. Palmer
- Raymond Parker
- I. Rice Pereira
- Alton Pickens
- Jackson Pollock
- Richard Pousette-Dart
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Leo Quanchi
- Walter Quirt
- George Ratkai
- Abraham Rattner
- Ad Reinhardt
- Leatrice Rose
- Mark Rothko
- Alfred Russell
- Kay Sage
- Attilio Salemme
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Georges Schreiber
- Sonia Sekula
- Kurt Seligmann
- John Sennhauser
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Sarai Sherman
- Sidney Simon
- Mitchell Siporin
- John Sloan
- Esphyr Slobodkina
- William T. Snaith
- Joseph Solman
- Raphael Soyer
- Niles Spencer
- Everett Spruce
- Theodoros Stamos
- John Stephan
- Hedda Sterne
- Maurice Sterne
- Walter Stuempfig
- Rufino Tamayo
- Yves Tanguy
- Victor Thall
- Bradley Walker Tomlin
- Anthony Toney
- George Tooker
- Joyce Treiman
- Pat Trivigno
- Esteban Vicente
- John von Wicht
- Howard Warshaw
- Max Weber
- John Wilde
- Emerson Woelffer
- Joe Wolins
- Jean Xcéron
- Karl Zerbe
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“In its 1950 exhibition of contemporary American painting the Whitney Museum has as usual provided a very provocative and challenging show.” —The New York Times
“A visitor to the Whitney cannot fail to be impressed by the wide range of American painting today.” —The New York Times
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