1953 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings
Apr 9–May 29, 1953
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Artists
- Calvin Albert
- Harold Ambellan
- Leo Amino
- Charles Annan
- Alexander Archipenko
- Saul Baizerman
- Stanley Bate
- Will Behler
- Jane Berlandina
- Eugene Berman
- Isabel Bishop
- Arbit Blatas
- Louise Bourgeois
- James Brooks
- Carlyle Brown
- Charles Burchfield
- Paul Cadmus
- Alexander Calder
- Mary Callery
- Rhys Caparn
- Robert Cook
- Edward Corbett
- Lucille Corcos
- Joseph Cornell
- Konrad Cramer
- Andrew Dasburg
- José de Creeft
- Julio de Diego
- Dorothy Dehner
- Willem de Kooning
- Koren Der Harootian
- Henry Di Spirito
- Lu Duble
- Frank Duncan
- Leonard Edmondson
- Elizabeth Engelhard
- Jimmy Ernst
- Wharton Esherick
- Emlen Etting
- Lyonel Feininger
- Herbert Ferber
- David Fredenthal
- Sue Fuller
- Joseph M. Glasco
- Sidney Gordin
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Lorrie Goulet
- Morris Graves
- Dorothea Greenbaum
- Balcomb Greene
- John Grillo
- Peter Grippe
- Werner Groshans
- Chaim Gross
- Isadore Grossman
- Lena Gurr
- Philip Guston
- Joseph Hahn
- William Halsey
- James Hansen
- David Hare
- Minna Harkavy
- Milton Hebald
- Albert Heckman
- Diana Heiskell
- Harry Hoehn
- Hans Hofmann
- John Hovannes
- Robert B. Howard
- Lewis Iselin
- Ynez Johnston
- Joe Jones
- Florence Kawa
- Nathaniel Kaz
- Leon Kelly
- Ellen Key-Oberg
- William Kienbusch
- Dong Kingman
- Jonah Kinigstein
- Franz Kline
- Henry Koerner
- Gabriel Kohn
- Richard Koppe
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Lawrence Kupferman
- Irene Lagorio
- Ibram Lassaw
- Jacob Lawrence
- James Lechay
- Barbara Lekberg
- Leonid
- Simon Levine
- Israel Levitan
- Herschel Levit
- Edmund D. Lewandowski
- Peter Lipman-Wulf
- Richard Lippold
- Seymour Lipton
- Oronzio Maldarelli
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- Boris Margo
- Berta Margoulies
- De Hirsh Margules
- John Marin
- Joseph Meert
- Walter Midener
- Edward Millman
- Robert Moir
- Hans Moller
- George L. K. Morris
- Mark Morrison
- Robert Motherwell
- Paul Nabb
- Fred Nagler
- Katherine Nash
- Louise Nevelson
- Juan Nickford
- Charles Oscar
- Alfonso Ossorio
- Stephen Pace
- William Pachner
- Betty Parsons
- Gabor Peterdi
- Donald A. Peters
- Marianna Pineda
- Ogden M. Pleissner
- Reginald Pollack
- Jackson Pollock
- Henry Varnum Poor
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Sara Provan
- George Ratkai
- Bernard Reder
- Jeanne Reynal
- George Rickey
- Ivan Rigby
- Hugo Robus
- James Rosati
- Bernard Rosenthal
- Theodore Roszak
- Alfred Russell
- Anne Ryan
- Attilio Salemme
- Lucia Autorino Salemme
- Charles Salerno
- Louis Schanker
- Xanti Schawinsky
- Day Schnabel
- Karl Schrag
- Georges Schreiber
- Jason Seley
- Charles Shaw
- Helena Simkhovitch
- David Smith
- Jacob Getlar Smith
- Miron Sokole
- Edwin E. Sponsler
- Saul Steinberg
- Harry Sternberg
- Edward John Stevens Jr.
- William Talbot
- Dorothea Tanning
- John W. Taylor
- Marie Taylor
- Donald Thrall
- Mark Tobey
- Harold Tovish
- Jack Tworkov
- Charles Umlauf
- Bror Utter
- Ruth Vodicka
- Jane Wasey
- Cady Wells
- Nat Werner
- Anita Weschler
- Charles White
- Gurdon Woods
- Andrew Wyeth
- Jack Zuckerman
In the News
“If sheer novelty at first tends to distract attention from more conservative entries, soundly traditional pieces make good their claims as the visitor extends his inspection. And some pieces manage to combine effectively something of tradition and modernism.” —The New York Times
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