1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting
Dec 16, 1969–Feb 1, 1970
Catalogue cover for 1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting
The 1969 Annual Exhibition was curated by Robert Doty.
View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.
Artists
- Thomas Akawie
- William Allan
- Neil R. Anderson
- Richard Anuszkiewicz
- Edward Avedisian
- Jo Baer
- Malcolm Bailey
- John Baldessari
- Darby Bannard
- Jack Beal
- Romare Bearden
- Robert Beauchamp
- Lynda Benglis
- Billy Al Bengston
- Jake Berthot
- Natvar Bhavsar
- Isabel Bishop
- Gary Bower
- Lynn Bowers
- Frank Bowling
- Marvin Brown
- David Budd
- Walter Cade III
- Lawrence Calcagno
- Dan Christensen
- John Clem Clarke
- Chuck Close
- Ron Cooper
- Alan Cote
- Nassos Daphnis
- Allan D'Arcangelo
- Gene Davis
- Ron Davis
- Peter Dechar
- Roy De Forest
- Willem de Kooning
- David Diao
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Robert Duran
- Jimmy Ernst
- Manny Farber
- Llyn Foulkes
- Sam Francis
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Paul Georges
- Sam Gilliam
- Joe Goode
- Sidney Goodman
- Adolph Gottlieb
- José Guerrero
- Allan Hacklin
- Carol Haerer
- Al Held
- Charles B. Hinman
- Tom Holland
- Gary Hudson
- Ralph Humphrey
- Robert Huot
- Neil Jenney
- Jasper Johns
- Donald Kaufman
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Joseph Kosuth
- Nicholas Krushenick
- Ronnie Landfield
- Jacob Lawrence
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Sven Lukin
- Alan D. Lynch
- John Mandel
- Robert Mangold
- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Brice Marden
- Fred Martin
- Richard Mayhew
- Denis McCarthy
- James McGarrell
- Richard Merkin
- Ralph Moseley
- Robert Moskowitz
- Robert Motherwell
- Robert Natkin
- Barnett Newman
- Kenneth Noland
- David Novros
- Doug Ohlson
- Kenzo Okada
- Jules Olitski
- Arthur L. Orr
- Ray Parker
- David Paul
- Philip Pearlstein
- William Pettet
- Larry Poons
- Katherine Porter
- Richard Pousette-Dart
- David Prentice
- Harvey Quaytman
- Leo Rabkin
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Murray Reich
- Garry Rich
- James Rosenquist
- Richard Roth
- Edwin Ruda
- Edward Ruscha
- Paul Sarkisian
- Roy Schnackenberg
- Jon Schueler
- William Schwedler
- Alan Shields
- Kenneth Showell
- Alan Siegel
- Theodore Singer
- Raphael Soyer
- Lawrence Stafford
- Robert Stanley
- Thomas Steigerwald
- Lewis Stein
- Frank Stella
- Gary Stephan
- James Sullivan
- Sam Tchakalian
- Wayne Thiebaud
- George Tooker
- John Torreano
- Cy Twombly
- Robert Wade
- Andy Warhol
- John Wesley
- Tom Wesselmann
- Jack Whitten
- William T. Wiley
- William T. Williams
- Philip Wofford
- Jack Youngerman
- Peter Young
- Mario Yrisarry
- Robert Zakanitch
- Duane Zaloudek
- Kestutis Zapkus
- Larry Zox
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In the News
“. . . a Whitney annual is necessarily something of a hodge-podge, and the only thing that can hold it together is consistent excellence from painting to painting, no matter what the paintings’ schools.” —The New York Times
“So much of [this exhibition] is so bad that it breaks your heart for American painting. It breaks your heart, too, for the Whitney, and you hardly know which is more to blame, the condition of painting at the moment, or the Whitney’s way of sizing it up.” —The New York Times
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