1955 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings
Jan 12–Feb 20, 1955
Cover for 1955 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings exhibition catalogue
Artists
- Samuel Adler
- Josef Albers
- Calvin Albert
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
- John Altoon
- David Aronson
- Ruth Asawa
- Peggy Bacon
- Leonard Baskin
- Helen Beling
- Eugene Berman
- Isabel Bishop
- Peter Blume
- Ilya Bolotowsky
- Louis Bosa
- Dorr Bothwell
- Louis Bouché
- Louise Bourgeois
- Richard Bové
- Byron Browne
- Fritz Bultman
- Louis Bunce
- Charles Burchfield
- Paul Burlin
- Paul Cadmus
- Doris Caesar
- Alexander Calder
- Mary Callery
- Victor Candell
- Gerald Coarding
- Warrington Colescott
- Robert Conover
- Robert Cook
- Edward Corbett
- Joseph Cornell
- Staats Cotsworth
- Ralston Crawford
- Robert Cronbach
- Willard W. Cummings
- Virginia Cuthbert
- Lindsay Daen
- Robert D’Arista
- Stuart Davis
- José de Creeft
- Adolf Dehn
- Koren Der Harootian
- José de Rivera
- Arthur Deshaies
- Edwin Dickinson
- Burgoyne Diller
- Blanche Dombek
- Enrico Donati
- Seymour Drumlevitch
- Lu Duble
- Hazard Durfee
- Elise
- Philip Evergood
- Lyonel Feininger
- Lorser Feitelson
- John Ferren
- Perle Fine
- James Fitzgerald
- Seymour Fogel
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Jared French
- Lee Gatch
- Ruth Gikow
- Fritz Glarner
- Leon Golub
- Xavier Gonzalez
- Frank Goodnow
- Byron Goto
- Joseph Goto
- Lorrie Goulet
- John D. Graham
- Morris Graves
- Dorothea Greenbaum
- Balcomb Greene
- William Gropper
- Chaim Gross
- Richard Grossenbach
- Louis Guglielmi
- Philip Guston
- Robert Gwathmey
- Luke Gwilliam
- Tom Hardy
- Minna Harkavy
- Grace Hartigan
- Milton Hebald
- Hans Hofmann
- Donald W. Holst
- Edward Hopper
- Robert B. Howard
- John Hultberg
- Lewis Iselin
- Ynez Johnston
- Luise Kaish
- Mariska Karasz
- Nathaniel Kaz
- Leon Kelly
- Dong Kingman
- William King
- Jules Kirschenbaum
- Karl Knaths
- Edward Laning
- Maurice A. Lapp
- Joseph L. Lasker
- James Lechay
- Leonid
- Peter Lipman-Wulf
- Loren MacIver
- Oronzio Maldarelli
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Boris Margo
- Berta Margoulies
- Helen Marshall
- Knox Martin
- Matta
- Henry Mattson
- Robert McChesney
- Sigmund Menkes
- Felicia Meyer
- Walter Midener
- Robert Moir
- Hans Moller
- Maud Morgan
- Randall Morgan
- Carl Morris
- George L. K. Morris
- George Mueller
- Juan Nickford
- Costantino Nivola
- Isamu Noguchi
- Nuala (Elsa De Brun)
- Kenzo Okada
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Alfonso Ossorio
- Arthur Osver
- William C. Palmer
- Robert Andrew Parker
- James Penney
- I. Rice Pereira
- Walter Plate
- Rudy Pozzatti
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Easton Pribble
- Leo Quanchi
- Walter Quirt
- George Ratkai
- Abraham Rattner
- Anton Refregier
- Siegfried Reinhardt
- Jeanne Reynal
- Larry Rivers
- Hugo Robus
- Theodore Roszak
- Kay Sage
- Charles Salerno
- Concetta Scaravaglione
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Karl Schrag
- Georges Schreiber
- Charles Schucker
- Manfred Schwartz
- Charles Seliger
- Kurt Seligmann
- John Sennhauser
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Helena Simkhovitch
- Sidney Simon
- Simpson-Middleman
- Mitchell Siporin
- Esphyr Slobodkina
- David Smith
- Joseph Solman
- Raphael Soyer
- Leo Steppat
- Walter Stuempfig
- Sahl Swarz
- Peter Takal
- Reuben Tam
- Yves Tanguy
- John W. Taylor
- William Thon
- Mark Tobey
- Stanley Twardowicz
- Russell Gould Twiggs
- Jack Tworkov
- Lucia Vernarelli
- Ruth Vodicka
- John von Wicht
- Charmion von Wiegand
- Vaclav Vytlacil
- Charles Wadsworth
- Sylvia Wald
- Carl Walters
- Jane Wasey
- Nat Werner
- Anita Weschler
- Charles White
- John Wilde
- Walter Williams
- Karl Zerbe
- William Zorach
In the News
“No exhibition the Whitney Museum ever staged has reflected more clearly the current ferment of the art world.” —The New York Times
“There are few out-and-out surprises, and a number of the entries have been seen in one-man shows since the last Whitney annual. But the exhibition as a whole has decided freshness and spirit.” —The New York Times
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