1953 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Oct 15–Dec 6, 1953
Cover for 1953 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting catalogue
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Artists
- Samuel Adler
- Josef Albers
- Bernard Arnest
- David Aronson
- Milton Avery
- Will Barnet
- William Baziotes
- Isabel Bishop
- Lucile Blanch
- Alfred Blaustein
- Peter Blume
- Ilya Bolotowsky
- Cameron Booth
- Richard Bové
- James Brooks
- Carlyle Brown
- Byron Browne
- Colleen Browning
- Louis Bunce
- Peter Busa
- Paul Cadmus
- Victor Candell
- William Chaiken
- Edward Chavez
- Carroll Cloar
- William Congdon
- Robert Conover
- Ralston Crawford
- Harry Crowley
- Virginia Cuthbert
- Stuart Davis
- Worden Day
- Willem de Kooning
- Edwin Dickinson
- Burgoyne Diller
- Frank Duncan
- Hazard Durfee
- Ethel Edwards
- Dean Ellis
- Jimmy Ernst
- Philip Evergood
- Lyonel Feininger
- Ernest Fiene
- Seymour Fogel
- Karl E. Fortess
- Michael Frary
- Guy Fraumeni
- Jared French
- Lee Gatch
- Jan Gelb
- Fritz Glarner
- Joseph M. Glasco
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Robert Greco
- Stephen Greene
- Marion Greenstone
- Louis Guglielmi
- Philip Guston
- Robert Gwathmey
- John Hartell
- John Heliker
- Hans Hofmann
- Edward Hopper
- Josephine Nivison Hopper
- John Langley Howard
- Gerome Kamrowski
- Frederic Karoly
- Herbert Katzman
- Jonah Kinigstein
- Jules Kirschenbaum
- Franz Kline
- Karl Knaths
- Robert Knipschild
- Joseph L. Lasker
- Leonid
- Julian Levi
- Jack Levine
- Edmund D. Lewandowski
- Howard Mandel
- Leo Manso
- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Boris Margo
- John Marin
- Reginald Marsh
- Fletcher Martin
- Alice Trumbull Mason
- Henry Mattson
- George McNeil
- Edward Melcarth
- Paul Mommer
- Randall Morgan
- George L. K. Morris
- George Morrison
- Robert Motherwell
- Walter Murch
- Roy Newell
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Arthur Osver
- William C. Palmer
- Charlotte Park
- I. Rice Pereira
- Bernard Perlin
- Marjorie Phillips
- Walter Plate
- Jackson Pollock
- Henry Varnum Poor
- Richard Pousette-Dart
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Walter Quirt
- Abraham Rattner
- Anton Refregier
- Ad Reinhardt
- Siegfried Reinhardt
- Herman Rose
- Alfred Russell
- Kay Sage
- Attilio Salemme
- Louis Schanker
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Charles Schucker
- Manfred Schwartz
- Kurt Seligmann
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Sidney Simon
- Mitchell Siporin
- Esphyr Slobodkina
- Judson Smith
- Raphael Soyer
- Theodoros Stamos
- Duncan Robert Stuart
- Walter Stuempfig
- Reuben Tam
- Yves Tanguy
- Mark Tobey
- Margaret Tomkins
- Anthony Toney
- George Tooker
- Jack Tworkov
- Esteban Vicente
- Robert Vickrey
- Martha Visser't Hooft
- Vaclav Vytlacil
- Howard Warshaw
- Max Weber
- Ralph L. Wickiser
- John Wilde
- Walter Williams
- Joe Wolins
- Hale Aspacio Woodruff
- Karl Zerbe
In the News
“. . . this year there are more pictures over-large for the statements they make, more examples of enforced novelty than usual and a considerably higher percentage than usual of artists who were represented in the preceding annual.” —The New York Times
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