1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings
Apr 18–June 10, 1956
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Artists
- Herb Aach
- Calvin Albert
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
- Leo Amino
- Jeremy Anderson
- Malcolm Gordon Anderson
- Oliver Andrews
- Alexander Archipenko
- Ruth Armer
- Ruth Asawa
- Milton Avery
- Peggy Bacon
- Virginia Banks
- Leonard Baskin
- William Baziotes
- Margit Beck
- Ben-Zion
- George Biddle
- Isabel Bishop
- Dusti Bonge
- Louise Bourgeois
- William Brice
- James Brooks
- Carlyle Brown
- Byron Browne
- Charles Burchfield
- Paul Burlin
- Paul Cadmus
- Doris Caesar
- Lawrence Calcagno
- Alexander Calder
- Kenneth Callahan
- Mary Callery
- Victor Candell
- Rhys Caparn
- Clarence Holbrook Carter
- Chen Chi
- Warrington Colescott
- Robert Cook
- Edward Corbett
- Joseph Cornell
- Robert Cronbach
- Roger L. Crossgrove
- Noel Davis
- Stuart Davis
- Lindsey Decker
- José de Creeft
- Adolf Dehn
- Willem de Kooning
- Koren Der Harootian
- José de Rivera
- Henry Di Spirito
- Enrico Donati
- Lu Duble
- Leonard Edmondson
- Ethel Edwards
- Jimmy Ernst
- Philip Evergood
- Fred Farr
- Berenice Feinstein
- Josh Fendell
- Herbert Ferber
- John Ferren
- Keith Finch
- Seymour Fogel
- Gray Foy
- Antonio Frasconi
- Paul Frazier
- David Fredenthal
- Jared French
- Sue Fuller
- Adomas Galdikas
- Jan Gelb
- Joseph M. Glasco
- Xavier Gonzalez
- Sidney Gordin
- Adolph Gottlieb
- John D. Graham
- Morris Graves
- Dorothea Greenbaum
- Balcomb Greene
- Stephen Greene
- Peter Grippe
- Chaim Gross
- George Grosz
- Roy Gussow
- Philip Guston
- Carl Hall
- David Hare
- Minna Harkavy
- John Hartell
- Stuart Harwood
- Milton Hebald
- Albert Heckman
- Charles Heidenreich
- John Heliker
- Hans Hofmann
- Robert B. Howard
- John Hultberg
- Angelo Ippolito
- Ynez Johnston
- Robert Kabak
- Herbert Kallem
- Nathaniel Kaz
- Leon Kelly
- Adaline Kent
- William Kienbusch
- Frederick Kiesler
- Dong Kingman
- Jonah Kinigstein
- Lyman Kipp
- Jules Kirschenbaum
- Henry Koerner
- Richard Koppe
- Louise Kruger
- Lawrence Kupferman
- Edward Laning
- Maurice A. Lapp
- Ibram Lassaw
- Robert Laurent
- Pietro Lazzari
- James Lechay
- Charles LeClair
- Leonid
- Jack Levine
- Simon Levine
- Richard Lidner
- Jacques Lipchitz
- Peter Lipman-Wulf
- Seymour Lipton
- Vincent Longo
- Eugene Ludins
- Oronzio Maldarelli
- Beatrice Mandelman
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- Boris Margo
- De Hirsh Margules
- Helen Marshall
- Harry Marinsky
- Ezio Martinelli
- John W. McCoy
- J. Jay McVicker
- Hugh Mesibov
- Edward Millman
- Robert Moir
- Carl Morris
- George Morrison
- Lee Mullican
- Reuben Nakian
- Louise Nevelson
- Juan Nickford
- Costantino Nivola
- Isamu Noguchi
- Elizabeth Olds
- Charles Oscar
- Alfonso Ossorio
- Stephen Pace
- Robert Andrew Parker
- Betty Parsons
- Abbott Pattison
- I. Rice Pereira
- Bernard Perlin
- Gabor Peterdi
- Ogden M. Pleissner
- Richard Pousette-Dart
- Rudy Pozzatti
- Gregorio Prestopino
- George Ratkai
- Abraham Rattner
- Jeanne Reynal
- Daniel Rhodes
- Larry Rivers
- Hugo Robus
- Theodore Roszak
- Henry Rox
- Andrée Ruellan
- Robert I. Russin
- Hélène Sardeau
- Concetta Scaravaglione
- Karl Schrag
- Georges Schreiber
- Charles Schucker
- Sonia Sekula
- Charles Seliger
- Kurt Seligmann
- John Sennhauser
- Rene Shapshak
- Sarai Sherman
- Helena Simkhovitch
- Sidney Simon
- Mitchell Siporin
- David Smith
- Edwin E. Sponsler
- Theodoros Stamos
- Richard Stankiewicz
- Saul Steinberg
- Edward John Stevens Jr.
- Dorothy Sturm
- Peter Takal
- John W. Taylor
- William Thon
- Mark Tobey
- Trajan
- Charles Umlauf
- Polygnotos Vagis
- Robert Vickrey
- John von Wicht
- Jane Wasey
- Max Weber
- Nat Werner
- Anita Weschler
- Charles White
- John Wilde
- Andrew Wyeth
- Karl Zerbe
- William Zorach
- Jack Zuckerman
Installation photography
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Installation view of 1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 18–June 10, 1956). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
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Installation view of 1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 18–June 10, 1956). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
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Installation view of 1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 18–June 10, 1956). From left to right: David Smith, Iron Woman; Sidney Gordin, Construction, No. 10; at far right Jose De Rivera, Construction, No. 6. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
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Installation view of 1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 18–June 10, 1956). From left to right: Ruth Asawa, Black & Gold; Sue Fuller, String Composition, No. 63; Isamu Noguchi, Untitled; Louise Nevelson, Black Majesty; Joseph Albers, Red Wall. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
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Installation view of 1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 18–June 10, 1956). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
In the News
“. . . the constructionists and workers in metal are decidedly in evidence. But veterans who are in varying degrees traditional in their outlook have not been neglected.” —The New York Times
“. . . the water-color section (particularly attractive this year) and the drawings range from realism to complicated abstraction, and in these departments, as in the sculpture section, the effort has been made to reveal the wide range of current activities and the vitality of today’s work.” —The New York Times
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