Annual Exhibition 1962: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings

Dec 12, 1962–Feb 3, 1963

Catalogue cover for Annual Exhibition 1962: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings
Catalogue cover for Annual Exhibition 1962: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings

Catalogue cover for Annual Exhibition 1962: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings

View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.


Press Highlights

“Altogether, this year’s annual is the most encouraging in several years as to the healthy state of American art.” —The New York Times

“Here and there you run into a piece of stale, tired work, but overall the impression is that this is a large group of sound technicians who are expressing themselves effectively in a remarkably wide variety of ways.” —The New York Times


The Whitney Museum in NYC with the One World Trade Center in the background, viewed from a riverside walkway on a sunny day.
The Whitney Museum in NYC with the One World Trade Center in the background, viewed from a riverside walkway on a sunny day.

Photgraph by Max Touhey

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