First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 22, 1932–Jan 5, 1933
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Artists
- Jean Crawford Adams
- Dewey Albinson
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
- Edmund Archer
- Emil Armin
- George C. Ault
- Jozef G. Bakos
- Paul Bartlett
- A. S. Baylinson
- Gifford R. Beal
- Ben Benn
- George Biddle
- Isabel Bishop
- Arnold Blanch
- Lucile Blanch
- Julius Bloch
- Oscar Bluemner
- Peter Blume
- Adolphe Borie
- Louis Bouché
- Fiske Boyd
- Alexander Brook
- Edward Bruce
- Henri Burkhard
- David Burliuk
- Bryson Burroughs
- Jo Cain
- Blendon Campbell
- Vincent Canade
- John Carroll
- Nicolai Cikovsky
- Florence Ballin Cramer
- Konrad Cramer
- Francis Criss
- John Cunning
- John Steuart Curry
- Andrew Dasburg
- Stuart Davis
- Charles Demuth
- Nathaniel Dirk
- Thomas Donnelly
- Arthur Dove
- Elsie Driggs
- Guy Pène Du Bois
- Charles Duncan
- Stuart Edie
- Louis M. Eilshemius
- Stephen Etnier
- Ernest Fiene
- Frances Foy
- Kenneth Frasier
- Karl Free
- Arnold Friedman
- Emil Ganso
- William Glackens
- Anne Goldthwaite
- Harry Gottlieb
- John D. Graham
- Davenport Griffen
- Bernard Gussow
- Marsden Hartley
- Bertram Hartman
- Childe Hassam
- Harry Hering
- Eugene Higgins
- Stefan Hirsch
- Gerrit Hondius
- Charles Hopkinson
- Edward Hopper
- Earl Horter
- Isabella Howland
- John Kane
- Morris Kantor
- Bernard Karfiol
- Henry G. Keller
- Georgina Klitgaard
- Karl Knaths
- Frederic Knight
- Benjamin Kopman
- Leon Kroll
- Max Kuehne
- Walt Kuhn
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Richard Lahey
- Edward Laning
- Sidney Laufman
- Ernest Lawson
- Doris Lee
- Hayley Lever
- A. F. Levinson
- Jonas Lie
- William H. Littlefield
- John Ward Lockwood
- Charles Logasa
- Luigi Lucioni
- Eugene Ludins
- George Luks
- Gus Mager
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- Reginald Marsh
- Henry Mattson
- Jan Matulka
- Henry Lee McFee
- Austin Mecklem
- Gari Melchers
- Kenneth Hayes Miller
- Ross Moffett
- David H. Morrison
- Jerome Myers
- Willard Nash
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Otis Oldfield
- Sam Ostrowsky
- Walter Pach
- Marjorie Phillips
- George Picken
- Salvatore Pinto
- Theresa Pollak
- Joseph Pollet
- Henry Varnum Poor
- Edward Redfield
- Paul Rohland
- Umberto Romano
- Charles Rosen
- Theodore Roszak
- W. Vladimir Rousseff
- Saul Schary
- Katherine Schmidt
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Ben Shahn
- Charles Sheeler
- Anatol Shulkin
- John Sloan
- Judson Smith
- Raphael Soyer
- Eugene Speicher
- Francis Speight
- Niles Spencer
- Joseph Stella
- Maurice Sterne
- Florine Stettheimer
- Chuzo Tamotzu
- Bradley Walker Tomlin
- Herman Trunk, Jr.
- Allen Tucker
- Carroll Tyson
- Laura Van Pappelendam
- Dorothy Varian
- Abraham Walkowitz
- Nan Watson
- Max Weber
- Harold Weston
- Warren Wheelock
- Arnold Wiltz
- Grant Wood
- Stanley Wood
- Marguerite Zorach
Installation Photography
Installation view of First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933)
Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Theresa Pollak, Summac; Edward Lanning, Fourteenth Street; Bernard Karfiol, Miss B.N.; Arnold Blanche, Landscape. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho
Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Abraham Walkowitz, From My Window; Louis Bouche, Stamford Harbor; Max Weber, Interior With Still Life; Louis Eilshemius, Delaware Water Gap Village; A.S. Baylinson, Eternal Woman. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho
Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Harry Gottlieb, On the Balcony; Charles Logassa, Study for Pole Vaulter; Edward Bruce, San Luis Obispo; Jerome Meyers, Vaudville; Jean Crawford Adams, Plowing; Andrew Dasburg, Merganser. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho
Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Anatol Shulkin, Kentucky Yarn; Florence Ballin-Chamer, Landscape; Henri Burkhard, Three Men; Sidney Laufman, Behind The Village; Richard Lahey, Carlotta in Rose Dress. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho
Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Ernest Lawson, Baseball Park; Isabel Bishop, Combing Her Hair; John Cunning, Sunset—New York Bay; George Biddle, His First Crossing. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho
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“. . . one thing that makes the Whitney biennial so peculiarly attractive is just the sense of inexhaustible surprise . . .” —The New York Times
“Above all else [. . .] the museum is to be congratulated on having assembled so broad a survey of painting in this country.” —The New York Times
“. . . a panorama of what is going on in American painting today.” —The American Magazine of Art
“. . . a catholic gathering of contemporary tendencies . . .” —The American Magazine of Art
“The representation in this exhibition is sectional, covering the country from the East Coast to the West and from the Canada border to Mexico [. . .] a general survey of American art of today will be given.” —Evening Star
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