First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 22, 1932–Jan 5, 1933
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Artists
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Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
5 works in the collection
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Edmund Archer
3 works in the collection
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George C. Ault
10 works in the collection
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Jozef G. Bakos
1 work in the collection
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A. S. Baylinson
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Gifford R. Beal
10 works in the collection
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Ben Benn
3 works in the collection
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George Biddle
18 works in the collection
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Isabel Bishop
74 works in the collection
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Arnold Blanch
6 works in the collection
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Lucile Blanch
15 works in the collection
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Julius Bloch
13 works in the collection
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Oscar Bluemner
17 works in the collection
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Peter Blume
7 works in the collection
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Adolphe Borie
5 works in the collection
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Louis Bouché
6 works in the collection
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Fiske Boyd
10 works in the collection
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Alexander Brook
9 works in the collection
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Edward Bruce
1 work in the collection
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Henri Burkhard
2 works in the collection
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David Burliuk
6 works in the collection
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Bryson Burroughs
1 work in the collection
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Blendon Campbell
10 works in the collection
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Vincent Canade
3 works in the collection
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John Carroll
3 works in the collection
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Nicolai Cikovsky
1 work in the collection
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Konrad Cramer
5 works in the collection
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Francis Criss
3 works in the collection
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John Cunning
1 work in the collection
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John Steuart Curry
13 works in the collection
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Andrew Dasburg
10 works in the collection
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Stuart Davis
27 works in the collection
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Charles Demuth
11 works in the collection
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Nathaniel Dirk
2 works in the collection
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Thomas Donnelly
6 works in the collection
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Arthur Dove
8 works in the collection
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Elsie Driggs
6 works in the collection
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Guy Pène Du Bois
56 works in the collection
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Charles Duncan
1 work in the collection
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Stuart Edie
2 works in the collection
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Louis M. Eilshemius
9 works in the collection
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Stephen Etnier
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Ernest Fiene
19 works in the collection
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Karl Free
11 works in the collection
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Emil Ganso
26 works in the collection
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Arnold Friedman
1 work in the collection
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William Glackens
9 works in the collection
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Anne Goldthwaite
3 works in the collection
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Harry Gottlieb
6 works in the collection
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John D. Graham
9 works in the collection
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Bernard Gussow
3 works in the collection
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Marsden Hartley
19 works in the collection
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Bertram Hartman
3 works in the collection
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Childe Hassam
5 works in the collection
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Harry Hering
3 works in the collection
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Eugene Higgins
30 works in the collection
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Stefan Hirsch
6 works in the collection
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Gerrit Hondius
1 work in the collection
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Charles Hopkinson
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Edward Hopper
3,151 works in the collection
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Earl Horter
11 works in the collection
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Isabella Howland
3 works in the collection
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John Kane
2 works in the collection
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Morris Kantor
14 works in the collection
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Bernard Karfiol
9 works in the collection
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Henry G. Keller
1 work in the collection
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Georgina Klitgaard
5 works in the collection
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Karl Knaths
7 works in the collection
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Frederic Knight
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Benjamin Kopman
13 works in the collection
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Leon Kroll
4 works in the collection
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Max Kuehne
20 works in the collection
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Walt Kuhn
17 works in the collection
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi
77 works in the collection
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Richard Lahey
6 works in the collection
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Edward Laning
6 works in the collection
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Sidney Laufman
2 works in the collection
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Ernest Lawson
3 works in the collection
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Doris Lee
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Hayley Lever
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A. F. Levinson
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William H. Littlefield
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John Ward Lockwood
5 works in the collection
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Luigi Lucioni
13 works in the collection
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Eugene Ludins
1 work in the collection
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George Luks
10 works in the collection
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Gus Mager
1 work in the collection
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Peppino Gino Mangravite
6 works in the collection
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Reginald Marsh
188 works in the collection
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Henry Mattson
6 works in the collection
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Jan Matulka
12 works in the collection
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Henry Lee McFee
7 works in the collection
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Austin Mecklem
2 works in the collection
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Kenneth Hayes Miller
134 works in the collection
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Ross Moffett
2 works in the collection
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David H. Morrison
1 work in the collection
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Jerome Myers
10 works in the collection
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Georgia O'Keeffe
13 works in the collection
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Walter Pach
4 works in the collection
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Marjorie Phillips
1 work in the collection
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George Picken
3 works in the collection
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Salvatore Pinto
2 works in the collection
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Joseph Pollet
4 works in the collection
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Henry Varnum Poor
2 works in the collection
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Edward Redfield
1 work in the collection
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Paul Rohland
5 works in the collection
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Umberto Romano
6 works in the collection
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Charles Rosen
3 works in the collection
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Theodore Roszak
39 works in the collection
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Saul Schary
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Katherine Schmidt
11 works in the collection
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Henry Schnakenberg
12 works in the collection
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Ben Shahn
13 works in the collection
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Charles Sheeler
31 works in the collection
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Florine Stettheimer
2 works in the collection
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John Sloan
164 works in the collection
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Judson Smith
1 work in the collection
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Raphael Soyer
50 works in the collection
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Eugene Speicher
14 works in the collection
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Francis Speight
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Niles Spencer
6 works in the collection
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Joseph Stella
21 works in the collection
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Maurice Sterne
14 works in the collection
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Chuzo Tamotzu
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Bradley Walker Tomlin
6 works in the collection
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Herman Trunk, Jr.
1 work in the collection
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Allen Tucker
6 works in the collection
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Dorothy Varian
6 works in the collection
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Abraham Walkowitz
30 works in the collection
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Nan Watson
7 works in the collection
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Max Weber
14 works in the collection
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Harold Weston
1 work in the collection
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Warren Wheelock
1 work in the collection
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Arnold Wiltz
6 works in the collection
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Grant Wood
12 works in the collection
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Marguerite Zorach
8 works in the collection
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Stanley Wood
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Laura Van Pappelendam
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Carroll Tyson
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Anatol Shulkin
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W. Vladimir Rousseff
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Theresa Pollak
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Sam Ostrowsky
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Otis Oldfield
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Willard Nash
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Gari Melchers
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Charles Logasa
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Jonas Lie
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Davenport Griffen
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Kenneth Frasier
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Frances Foy
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Florence Ballin Cramer
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Jo Cain
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Emil Armin
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Dewey Albinson
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Jean Crawford Adams
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Paul Bartlett
Installation Photography

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

In the News
“. . . 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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