1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting
Jan 25–Mar 19, 1972
Catalogue cover for 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting
The 1972 Annual Exhibition was curated by James Monte.
View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.
Artists
- William Allan
- Richard Anuszkiewicz
- Richard Artschwager
- Malcolm Bailey
- Darby Bannard
- Peter Bardazzi
- Victoria Barr
- Frances Barth
- Jennifer Bartlett
- Romare Bearden
- Tom Blackwell
- Norman Bluhm
- Blythe Bohnen
- Ilya Bolotowsky
- Sharon Brandt
- James Brooks
- Joan Brown
- Marvin Brown
- David Budd
- Catti
- John E. Chandler
- Sue Ann Childress
- Dan Christensen
- John Clem Clarke
- Chuck Close
- William Conlon
- Alan Cote
- Susan Crile
- Brad Davis
- Willem de Kooning
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Don Dudley
- Jimmy Ernst
- Richard Estes
- Perle Fine
- Audrey Flack
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Ernest Frazier
- LeRoy Frazier
- Jane Freilicher
- Andrew Gaylard
- J. Nebraska Gifford
- Gregory Gillespie
- Carl Gliko
- Juan Gonzalez
- Guy Goodwin
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Nancy Graves
- Stephen Greene
- Carol Haerer
- Joe Haske
- Mary Heilmann
- Al Held
- Budd Hopkins
- Yvonne Jacquette
- Virginia Jaramillo
- Jasper Johns
- Lester Johnson
- Howard Kanovitz
- Alex Katz
- Harriet Korman
- Joyce Kozloff
- Frances Kuehn
- Kunié
- Jacob Lawrence
- Alfred Leslie
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Frank Lobdell
- Vincent Longo
- Alvin Loving
- Noel Mahaffey
- Jim Malone
- John Mandel
- Sylvia Mangold
- Bill Martin
- Knox Martin
- Richard Merkin
- Malcolm Morley
- Catherine Murphy
- Elizabeth Murray
- Alice Neel
- Kenneth Noland
- Kenzo Okada
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Jules Olitski
- William Omwake
- Tommy Dale Palmore
- James Parker
- Ray Parker
- Philip Pearlstein
- Howardena Pindell
- Peter Plagens
- Larry Poons
- Stephen Posen
- Richard Pousette-Dart
- Robert Povlich
- Harvey Quaytman
- Christina Ramberg
- Robert Reed
- Murray Reich
- Deborah Remington
- Tony Robbin
- Raymond Saunders
- Edward Scher
- William Schwedler
- Alan Shields
- Nate Shiner
- Thomas Sills
- Jenny Snider
- Joan Snyder
- Raphael Soyer
- Robert Stanley
- Jim Starrett
- Pat Steir
- Frank Stella
- Gary Stephan
- Jim Sullivan
- Joan Thorne
- Sidney Tillim
- Cy Twombly
- Jack Tworkov
- Nancy Van Deren
- Carlos Villa
- F. J. Wardy
- Neil Welliver
- Tom Wesselmann
- Joseph P. White
- Jack Whitten
- Guy Williams
- William T. Williams
- Philip Wofford
- Larry Zox
Installation photography
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Installation view of the 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19, 1972). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
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Installation view of the 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19, 1972). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
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Installation view of the 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19, 1972). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
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Installation view of the 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19, 1972). From left to right: Al Held, Black Nile III; William Omwake, Zax Zealot. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
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Installation view of the 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19, 1972). Photograph by Geoffrey Clements
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In the News
“. . . the best [Annual] in years.” —The New York Times
“. . . this year’s Whitney Annual [. . .] isn’t half bad or at least, being no more than half bad, is pretty good, considering.” —The New York Times
“Only tokenism is triumphant in the show . . .” —The Washington Post
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