1956 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings
Nov 14, 1956–Jan 6, 1957
Catalogue cover for 1956 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings
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Artists
- Pat Adams
- Samuel Adler
- Josef Albers
- Calvin Albert
- Leo Amino
- Alexander Archipenko
- Milton Avery
- Gertrude Barrer
- William Baziotes
- Janice Biala
- Isabel Bishop
- Nell Blaine
- Lucile Blanch
- Hyman Bloom
- Peter Blume
- Louis Bouché
- Louise Bourgeois
- William Brice
- Ernest Briggs
- James Brooks
- Carlyle Brown
- Colleen Browning
- Charles Burchfield
- Paul Burlin
- Paul Cadmus
- Doris Caesar
- Lawrence Calcagno
- Alexander Calder
- Kenneth Callahan
- Victor Candell
- Cecil Lang Casebier
- William Chaiken
- Edward Chavez
- Herman Cherry
- William Congdon
- Robert Cook
- Edward Corbett
- Joseph Cornell
- Richard Crist
- Robert Cronbach
- Adolf Dehn
- Willem de Kooning
- Koren Der Harootian
- José de Rivera
- Lamar Dodd
- Enrico Donati
- Seymour Drumlevitch
- Lu Duble
- Hazard Durfee
- Jimmy Ernst
- Philip Evergood
- Herbert Ferber
- John Ferren
- Seymour Fogel
- Gray Foy
- Sam Francis
- Jared French
- Joseph Friebert
- Sue Fuller
- William Gambini
- Lee Gatch
- Jan Gelb
- Fritz Glarner
- Joseph M. Glasco
- Xavier Gonzalez
- Robert Goodnough
- Sidney Gordin
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Joseph Gotto
- Morris Graves
- Dorothea Greenbaum
- Balcomb Greene
- Stephen Greene
- Peter Grippe
- Chaim Gross
- Jean Guerin
- Philip Guston
- Ernest Guteman
- Robert Gwathmey
- Raoul Hague
- David Hare
- Minna Harkavy
- Grace Hartigan
- Kaname Hayashi
- John Heliker
- Dorothy Heller
- Edward Hopper
- John Hultberg
- Tom Ingle
- Mitchell Jamieson
- Murray Jones
- Matsumi Kanemitsu
- Herbert Katzman
- Nathaniel Kaz
- Gyorgy Kepes
- William Kienbusch
- Dong Kingman
- William King
- Jonah Kinigstein
- Jules Kirschenbaum
- Franz Kline
- Karl Knaths
- Lee Krasner
- Ibram Lassaw
- John Laurent
- Pietro Lazzari
- Jack Levine
- Jacques Lipchitz
- Peter Lipman-Wulf
- Seymour Lipton
- Oronzio Maldarelli
- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Boris Margo
- Ezio Martinelli
- Henry Mattson
- Douglas McClellan
- James McGarrell
- Hugh Mesibov
- Richard Miller
- Hans Moller
- Randall Morgan
- Carl Morris
- Kyle Morris
- Robert Motherwell
- George Mueller
- Walter Murch
- Louise Nevelson
- Juan Nickford
- Isamu Noguchi
- Kenzo Okada
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Earle Olsen
- Charles Oscar
- Alfonso Ossorio
- Stephen Pace
- William C. Palmer
- Robert Andrew Parker
- Abbott Pattison
- Philip Pearlstein
- I. Rice Pereira
- Gabor Peterdi
- Richard Pousette-Dart
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Leo Quanchi
- George Ratkai
- Abraham Rattner
- Ad Reinhardt
- Jeanne Reynal
- Larry Rivers
- Hugo Robus
- Ralph Rosenborg
- Robert Rosenwald
- Theodore Roszak
- Kay Sage
- Louis Schanker
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Jo Anne Schneider
- Charles Schucker
- Ethel Schwabacher
- Manfred Schwartz
- Charles Seliger
- Kurt Seligmann
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Raphael Soyer
- Theodoros Stamos
- James Sterling
- Harold Sterner
- William Story
- Peter Takal
- Reuben Tam
- Sabina Teichman
- William Thon
- Mark Tobey
- George Tooker
- Trajan
- Jack Tworkov
- Robert Vickrey
- Ruth Vodicka
- John von Wicht
- Vaclav Vytlacil
- Jane Wasey
- Hugo Weber
- Nat Werner
- Anita Weschler
- John Wilde
- Walter Williams
- Andrew Wyeth
- Karl Zerbe
- William Zorach
In the News
“The mood of the Whitney show is decidedly more chastened than has been true of its recent annuals and it seems to this reviewer to present a higher percentage of ability than usual.” —The New York Times
“The sculpture section [. . .] in the Whitney show this year is smaller than usual and, this reviewer feels, less rewarding than in recent years. The paintings [. . .] as usual range from very realistic to wholly abstract with considerable of the latter edging over perilously close to sheer decorative use of color. The drawings are admirable.” —The New York Times
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