1955 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 9, 1955–Jan 8, 1956
Cover for 1955 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting catalogue
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Artists
- Samuel Adler
- Josef Albers
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
- Albert Alcalay
- Takeshi Asada
- William Baziotes
- Romare Bearden
- Rosemarie Beck
- Tom Benrimo
- Claude Bentley
- Ernestine Betsberg
- Janice Biala
- Arnold Blanch
- Arbit Blatas
- Yuli Blumberg
- Seymour Boardman
- Ilya Bolotowsky
- Elie Borgrave
- Ernest Briggs
- James Brooks
- Carlyle Brown
- Colleen Browning
- Hans Burkhardt
- Peter Busa
- Lawrence Calcagno
- Victor Candell
- Norman Carton
- William Chaiken
- Wynn Chamberlain
- Herman Cherry
- Carmen Cicero
- Minna Citron
- William Congdon
- Robert Conover
- Willard W. Cummings
- Robert D’Arista
- Adolf Dehn
- Robert De Niro, Sr.
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Harvey Dinnerstein
- Jimmy Ernst
- Philip Evergood
- John Ferren
- Ernest Fiene
- Keith Finch
- Jane Freilicher
- Jared French
- Shizuko Fujimoto
- Lee Gatch
- Fritz Glarner
- Leon Golub
- Byron Goto
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Morris Graves
- Robert Greco
- Balcomb Greene
- Stephen Greene
- John Gregoropoulos
- William Gropper
- Louis Guglielmi
- Carl Hall
- Lily Harmon
- Grace Hartigan
- Léon Hartl
- John Heliker
- Fannie Hillsmith
- Joseph Hirsch
- Margo Hoff
- Hans Hofmann
- John Hultberg
- Herbert Katzman
- Leon Kelly
- Earl Kerkam
- Robert Keyser
- Jules Kirschenbaum
- Franz Kline
- Karl Knaths
- Joseph L. Lasker
- James C. Leong
- Leonid
- Jack Levine
- Israel Litwak
- Eugene Ludins
- Loren MacIver
- Howard Mandel
- Leo Manso
- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Boris Margo
- Fletcher Martin
- Keith Martin
- Alice Trumbull Mason
- Eugene Massin
- Matta
- James McGarrell
- Sigmund Menkes
- Felicia Meyer
- Edward Millman
- Joan Mitchell
- Hans Moller
- Randall Morgan
- George Mueller
- Walter Murch
- Kenzo Okada
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- John Opper
- Arthur Osver
- William C. Palmer
- Philip Pearlstein
- I. Rice Pereira
- Gabor Peterdi
- George Picken
- Alton Pickens
- Walter Plate
- Reginald Pollack
- Richard Pousette-Dart
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Easton Pribble
- Abraham Rattner
- Rudolf Ray
- Anton Refregier
- Ad Reinhardt
- Wallace Reiss
- Louis Ribak
- Larry Rivers
- Franklin Robbins
- Herman Rose
- Kay Sage
- Lucia Autorino Salemme
- Herbert Saslow
- David Sawin
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Charles Schucker
- Ethel Schwabacher
- Kurt Seligmann
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Sarai Sherman
- Mitchell Siporin
- Joseph Solman
- Moses Soyer
- Raphael Soyer
- Theodoros Stamos
- Walter Stein
- Reuben Tam
- Stanley D. Tasker
- Frederic Taubes
- John W. Taylor
- Howard Thomas
- Mark Tobey
- Anthony Toney
- George Tooker
- Nahum Tschacbasov
- Stanley Twardowicz
- Jack Tworkov
- Nicholas Vasilieff
- Esteban Vicente
- Robert Vickrey
- Martha Visser't Hooft
- John von Wicht
- June Wayne
- Max Weber
- Walter Williams
- Sol Wilson
- Jean Xcéron
- Karl Zerbe
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In the News
“. . . the show as a whole is perhaps the most glamorous in effect that the Whitney has ever staged.” —The New York Times
“If there are few surprises and still fewer masterpieces present, and if the inventory is not a wholly heartening one, this year’s selected crop of 165 is by no means without interest.” —The New York Times
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