1959 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Dec 9, 1959–Jan 31, 1960
Cover for 1959 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting catalogue
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Artists
- Sam Amato
- Harold Baumbach
- William Baziotes
- Margit Beck
- Fred Berman
- Janice Biala
- George Biddle
- Elmer Bischoff
- Isabel Bishop
- Frederick Black
- Donald S. Bloom
- Norman Bluhm
- Ilya Bolotowsky
- Cameron Booth
- Gandy Brodie
- James Brooks
- Louis Bunce
- Charles Burchfield
- Paul Burlin
- Peter Busa
- Paul Cadmus
- Gretna Campbell
- Victor Candell
- Giorgio Cavallon
- Chen Chi
- Carmen Cicero
- Robert Conover
- Rollin Crampton
- Nassos Daphnis
- Robert D’Arista
- Adolf Dehn
- Willem de Kooning
- Enrico Donati
- Sally Hazelet Drummond
- Charles Steven Duback
- Edward Dugmore
- Yonia Fain
- Herbert Ferber
- John Ferren
- Louis Finkelstein
- Joseph Fiore
- Seymour Fogel
- Sam Francis
- Jared French
- Elias Friedensohn
- Shirl Goedike
- Augustus Goertz
- Robert Goodnough
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Stephen Greene
- John Grillo
- Salvatore William Grippi
- John Heliker
- Joseph Hirsch
- Hans Hofmann
- Carl Holty
- Edward Hopper
- Josephine Nivison Hopper
- William Ivey
- Jasper Johns
- James Kearns
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Leon Kelly
- Robert Keyser
- William Kienbusch
- Jonah Kinigstein
- Franz Kline
- Karl Knaths
- Edward Laning
- Alfred Leslie
- John Levee
- Julian Levi
- Si Lewen
- Richard Lidner
- Loren MacIver
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Boris Margo
- Keith Martin
- James McGarrell
- Hugh Mesibov
- Edward Millman
- Joan Mitchell
- Paul Mommer
- William Morehouse
- Carl Morris
- Robert Motherwell
- George Mueller
- Walter Murch
- Barnett Newman
- Tetsuo Ochikubo
- Kenzo Okada
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Cyril Osborne
- Charles Oscar
- Arthur Osver
- William Pachner
- Anthony Palumbo
- David Park
- James Penney
- I. Rice Pereira
- George Picken
- Anne Poor
- Fairfield Porter
- Richard Pousette-Dart
- Gregorio Prestopino
- Leo Quanchi
- Leo Rabkin
- Abraham Rattner
- Ruth Ray
- Ad Reinhardt
- Milton Resnick
- Dean Richardson
- Kurt Roesch
- William Ronald
- Lucia Autorino Salemme
- Charles Schucker
- Jon Schueler
- George Segal
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Sarai Sherman
- Symeon Shimin
- Lundy Siegriest
- Thomas Sills
- Sidney Simon
- Mitchell Siporin
- Kimber Smith
- Syd Solomon
- Everett Spruce
- Theodoros Stamos
- Hedda Sterne
- James Strombotne
- Teiji Takai
- Reuben Tam
- Brie Taylor
- John W. Taylor
- Mark Tobey
- Jack Tworkov
- John von Wicht
- Max Weber
- Paul Wonner
- Andrew Wyeth
- Adja Yunkers
- Jack Zajac
In the News
“If you quarrel with this exhibition, what you are quarreling with is American painting. Of course that is easy to do, but it is beside the point of the Whitney survey.” —The New York Times
“The fact that a well-selected survey of contemporary American painting makes for a moderately tiresome show isn’t the Whitney’s fault, nor even entirely the fault of American painting. It means only that in a novelty-glutted age we are so avid for distraction that we want every show to afford new excitement.” —The New York Times
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