1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings
Apr 18–June 10, 1956
View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.
Artists
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Herb Aach
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Calvin Albert
2 works in the collection
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Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
5 works in the collection
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Leo Amino
1 work in the collection
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Jeremy Anderson
2 works in the collection
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Malcolm Gordon Anderson
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Oliver Andrews
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Alexander Archipenko
3 works in the collection
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Ruth Armer
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Ruth Asawa
3 works in the collection
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Milton Avery
17 works in the collection
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Peggy Bacon
33 works in the collection
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Virginia Banks
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Leonard Baskin
30 works in the collection
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William Baziotes
6 works in the collection
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Margit Beck
1 work in the collection
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Ben-Zion
3 works in the collection
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George Biddle
18 works in the collection
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Isabel Bishop
74 works in the collection
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Dusti Bonge
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Louise Bourgeois
32 works in the collection
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William Brice
4 works in the collection
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James Brooks
15 works in the collection
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Carlyle Brown
1 work in the collection
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Byron Browne
7 works in the collection
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Charles Burchfield
38 works in the collection
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Paul Burlin
13 works in the collection
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Paul Cadmus
11 works in the collection
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Doris Caesar
1 work in the collection
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Lawrence Calcagno
5 works in the collection
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Alexander Calder
187 works in the collection
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Kenneth Callahan
2 works in the collection
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Mary Callery
1 work in the collection
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Victor Candell
1 work in the collection
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Rhys Caparn
1 work in the collection
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Clarence Holbrook Carter
5 works in the collection
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Chen Chi
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Warrington Colescott
2 works in the collection
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Robert Cook
1 work in the collection
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Edward Corbett
5 works in the collection
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Joseph Cornell
8 works in the collection
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Robert Cronbach
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Roger L. Crossgrove
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Noel Davis
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Stuart Davis
27 works in the collection
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Lindsey Decker
1 work in the collection
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José de Creeft
3 works in the collection
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Adolf Dehn
48 works in the collection
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Willem de Kooning
19 works in the collection
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Koren Der Harootian
1 work in the collection
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José de Rivera
3 works in the collection
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Henry Di Spirito
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Enrico Donati
2 works in the collection
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Lu Duble
1 work in the collection
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Leonard Edmondson
1 work in the collection
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Ethel Edwards
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Jimmy Ernst
6 works in the collection
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Philip Evergood
12 works in the collection
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Fred Farr
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Berenice Feinstein
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Josh Fendell
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Herbert Ferber
6 works in the collection
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John Ferren
7 works in the collection
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Keith Finch
1 work in the collection
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Seymour Fogel
1 work in the collection
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Gray Foy
1 work in the collection
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Antonio Frasconi
4 works in the collection
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Paul Frazier
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David Fredenthal
1 work in the collection
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Jared French
29 works in the collection
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Sue Fuller
3 works in the collection
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Adomas Galdikas
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Jan Gelb
1 work in the collection
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Joseph M. Glasco
1 work in the collection
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Xavier Gonzalez
1 work in the collection
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Sidney Gordin
7 works in the collection
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Adolph Gottlieb
11 works in the collection
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John D. Graham
9 works in the collection
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Morris Graves
8 works in the collection
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Dorothea Greenbaum
2 works in the collection
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Balcomb Greene
4 works in the collection
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Stephen Greene
4 works in the collection
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Peter Grippe
3 works in the collection
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Chaim Gross
14 works in the collection
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George Grosz
8 works in the collection
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Roy Gussow
1 work in the collection
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Philip Guston
10 works in the collection
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Carl Hall
1 work in the collection
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David Hare
4 works in the collection
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Minna Harkavy
1 work in the collection
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John Hartell
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Stuart Harwood
1 work in the collection
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Milton Hebald
2 works in the collection
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Albert Heckman
3 works in the collection
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Charles Heidenreich
2 works in the collection
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John Heliker
9 works in the collection
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Hans Hofmann
7 works in the collection
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Robert B. Howard
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John Hultberg
4 works in the collection
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Angelo Ippolito
1 work in the collection
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Ynez Johnston
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Robert Kabak
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Herbert Kallem
1 work in the collection
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Nathaniel Kaz
1 work in the collection
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Leon Kelly
6 works in the collection
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Adaline Kent
1 work in the collection
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William Kienbusch
4 works in the collection
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Frederick Kiesler
16 works in the collection
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Dong Kingman
1 work in the collection
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Jonah Kinigstein
2 works in the collection
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Lyman Kipp
1 work in the collection
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Jules Kirschenbaum
2 works in the collection
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Henry Koerner
4 works in the collection
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Richard Koppe
1 work in the collection
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Louise Kruger
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Lawrence Kupferman
1 work in the collection
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Edward Laning
6 works in the collection
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Maurice A. Lapp
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Ibram Lassaw
8 works in the collection
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Robert Laurent
7 works in the collection
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Pietro Lazzari
1 work in the collection
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James Lechay
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Charles LeClair
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Leonid
1 work in the collection
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Jack Levine
5 works in the collection
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Simon Levine
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Richard Lidner
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Jacques Lipchitz
4 works in the collection
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Peter Lipman-Wulf
13 works in the collection
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Seymour Lipton
71 works in the collection
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Vincent Longo
6 works in the collection
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Eugene Ludins
1 work in the collection
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Oronzio Maldarelli
2 works in the collection
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Beatrice Mandelman
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Peppino Gino Mangravite
6 works in the collection
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Boris Margo
85 works in the collection
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De Hirsh Margules
1 work in the collection
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Helen Marshall
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Harry Marinsky
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Ezio Martinelli
2 works in the collection
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John W. McCoy
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J. Jay McVicker
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Hugh Mesibov
1 work in the collection
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Edward Millman
2 works in the collection
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Robert Moir
1 work in the collection
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Carl Morris
4 works in the collection
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George Morrison
3 works in the collection
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Lee Mullican
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Reuben Nakian
10 works in the collection
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Louise Nevelson
101 works in the collection
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Juan Nickford
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Costantino Nivola
4 works in the collection
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Isamu Noguchi
17 works in the collection
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Elizabeth Olds
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Charles Oscar
1 work in the collection
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Alfonso Ossorio
11 works in the collection
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Stephen Pace
1 work in the collection
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Robert Andrew Parker
2 works in the collection
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Betty Parsons
2 works in the collection
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Abbott Pattison
1 work in the collection
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I. Rice Pereira
8 works in the collection
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Bernard Perlin
1 work in the collection
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Gabor Peterdi
5 works in the collection
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Ogden M. Pleissner
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Richard Pousette-Dart
8 works in the collection
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Rudy Pozzatti
3 works in the collection
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Gregorio Prestopino
2 works in the collection
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George Ratkai
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Abraham Rattner
2 works in the collection
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Jeanne Reynal
1 work in the collection
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Daniel Rhodes
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Larry Rivers
22 works in the collection
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Hugo Robus
3 works in the collection
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Theodore Roszak
39 works in the collection
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Henry Rox
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Andrée Ruellan
6 works in the collection
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Robert I. Russin
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Hélène Sardeau
1 work in the collection
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Concetta Scaravaglione
2 works in the collection
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Karl Schrag
5 works in the collection
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Georges Schreiber
13 works in the collection
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Charles Schucker
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Sonia Sekula
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Charles Seliger
7 works in the collection
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Kurt Seligmann
3 works in the collection
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John Sennhauser
1 work in the collection
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Rene Shapshak
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Sarai Sherman
2 works in the collection
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Helena Simkhovitch
1 work in the collection
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Sidney Simon
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Mitchell Siporin
5 works in the collection
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David Smith
26 works in the collection
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Edwin E. Sponsler
1 work in the collection
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Theodoros Stamos
6 works in the collection
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Richard Stankiewicz
10 works in the collection
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Saul Steinberg
19 works in the collection
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Edward John Stevens Jr.
1 work in the collection
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Dorothy Sturm
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Peter Takal
23 works in the collection
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John W. Taylor
2 works in the collection
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William Thon
2 works in the collection
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Mark Tobey
11 works in the collection
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Trajan
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Charles Umlauf
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Polygnotos Vagis
2 works in the collection
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Robert Vickrey
1 work in the collection
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John von Wicht
4 works in the collection
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Jane Wasey
2 works in the collection
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Max Weber
14 works in the collection
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Nat Werner
2 works in the collection
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Anita Weschler
2 works in the collection
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Charles White
7 works in the collection
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John Wilde
5 works in the collection
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Andrew Wyeth
2 works in the collection
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Karl Zerbe
2 works in the collection
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William Zorach
26 works in the collection
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Jack Zuckerman
Installation Photography

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


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

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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