1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture

Dec 17, 1968–Feb 9, 1969

View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.

Installation photography

Installation view of the 1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 17, 1968–January 19, 1969). From left to right: George Sugarman, Square Spiral; Christopher Wilmarth; Richard Artschwager, 100 Locations (Blip) (appear on ceiling and window ledge). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
Installation view of the 1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 17, 1968–January 19, 1969). From left to right: Alexander Calder, Four at Forty Five Degrees; George Sugarman, Square Spiral; Eva Hesse, Sans; Richard Artschwager, 100 Locations (Blip). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
Installation view of the 1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 17, 1968–January 19, 1969). From left to right: Bernard Rosenthal, Odyssey; Richard Artschwager, 100 Locations (Blip); Robert Howard, 1–68; Duane Hatchett. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
Installation view of the 1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 17, 1968–January 19, 1969). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements

In the News

“Confronted with an exhibition of this sort—so eager to be up-to-date, yet so concerned to be ‘fair’ to a wide variety of esthetic creeds—one can do little more than point out its anthological character.” —The New York Times

“. . . even though its organizers have shifted the burden of the exhibition to focus on new developments in minimal, monumental, and outdoor sculpture, they are obliged to blunt the effect of this focus through the inclusion of many other kinds of sculpture which inevitably suffer by comparisons of scale and ambition.” —The New York Times

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