First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 22, 1932–Jan 5, 1933
View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.
Artists
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Jean Crawford Adams
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Dewey Albinson
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Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
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Edmund Archer
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Emil Armin
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George C. Ault
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Jozef G. Bakos
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Paul Bartlett
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A. S. Baylinson
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Gifford R. Beal
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Ben Benn
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George Biddle
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Isabel Bishop
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Arnold Blanch
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Lucile Blanch
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Julius Bloch
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Oscar Bluemner
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Peter Blume
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Adolphe Borie
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Louis Bouché
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Fiske Boyd
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Alexander Brook
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Edward Bruce
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Henri Burkhard
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David Burliuk
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Bryson Burroughs
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Jo Cain
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Blendon Campbell
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Vincent Canade
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John Carroll
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Nicolai Cikovsky
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Florence Ballin Cramer
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Konrad Cramer
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Francis Criss
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John Cunning
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John Steuart Curry
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Andrew Dasburg
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Stuart Davis
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Charles Demuth
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Nathaniel Dirk
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Thomas Donnelly
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Arthur Dove
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Elsie Driggs
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Guy Pène Du Bois
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Charles Duncan
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Stuart Edie
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Louis M. Eilshemius
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Stephen Etnier
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Ernest Fiene
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Frances Foy
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Kenneth Frasier
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Karl Free
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Arnold Friedman
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Emil Ganso
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William Glackens
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Anne Goldthwaite
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Harry Gottlieb
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John D. Graham
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Davenport Griffen
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Bernard Gussow
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Marsden Hartley
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Bertram Hartman
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Childe Hassam
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Harry Hering
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Eugene Higgins
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Stefan Hirsch
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Gerrit Hondius
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Charles Hopkinson
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Edward Hopper
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Earl Horter
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Isabella Howland
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John Kane
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Morris Kantor
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Bernard Karfiol
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Henry G. Keller
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Georgina Klitgaard
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Karl Knaths
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Frederic Knight
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Benjamin Kopman
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Leon Kroll
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Max Kuehne
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Walt Kuhn
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi
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Richard Lahey
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Edward Laning
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Sidney Laufman
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Ernest Lawson
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Doris Lee
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Hayley Lever
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A. F. Levinson
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Jonas Lie
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William H. Littlefield
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John Ward Lockwood
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Charles Logasa
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Luigi Lucioni
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Eugene Ludins
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George Luks
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Gus Mager
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Peppino Gino Mangravite
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Reginald Marsh
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Henry Mattson
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Jan Matulka
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Henry Lee McFee
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Austin Mecklem
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Gari Melchers
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Kenneth Hayes Miller
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Ross Moffett
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David H. Morrison
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Jerome Myers
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Willard Nash
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Otis Oldfield
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Sam Ostrowsky
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Walter Pach
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Marjorie Phillips
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George Picken
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Salvatore Pinto
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Theresa Pollak
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Joseph Pollet
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Henry Varnum Poor
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Edward Redfield
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Paul Rohland
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Umberto Romano
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Charles Rosen
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Theodore Roszak
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W. Vladimir Rousseff
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Saul Schary
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Katherine Schmidt
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Henry Schnakenberg
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Ben Shahn
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Charles Sheeler
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Anatol Shulkin
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John Sloan
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Judson Smith
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Raphael Soyer
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Eugene Speicher
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Francis Speight
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Niles Spencer
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Joseph Stella
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Maurice Sterne
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Florine Stettheimer
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Chuzo Tamotzu
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Bradley Walker Tomlin
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Herman Trunk, Jr.
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Allen Tucker
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Carroll Tyson
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Laura Van Pappelendam
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Dorothy Varian
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Abraham Walkowitz
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Nan Watson
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Max Weber
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Harold Weston
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Warren Wheelock
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Arnold Wiltz
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Grant Wood
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Stanley Wood
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Marguerite Zorach
Installation Photography
![Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a hallway.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826832/large_1178_Biennial_VW2_002.jpg.jpg)
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
![Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a hallway.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826832/large_1178_Biennial_VW2_002.jpg.jpg)
![Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a dining room.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826833/large_1178_Biennial_VW3_003.jpg.jpg)
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
![Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a dining room.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826833/large_1178_Biennial_VW3_003.jpg.jpg)
![Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a hallway.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826834/large_1178_Biennial_VW4_004.jpg.jpg)
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
![Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a hallway.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826834/large_1178_Biennial_VW4_004.jpg.jpg)
![Black-and-white photographs of paintings hanging in a gallery.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826835/large_1178_Biennial_VW6_006_crop.jpg)
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
![Black-and-white photographs of paintings hanging in a gallery.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826835/large_1178_Biennial_VW6_006_crop.jpg)
![Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a hallway at the top of stairs.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826836/large_1178_Bienniall_VW7_007_crop.jpg)
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
![Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a hallway at the top of stairs.](https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/826836/large_1178_Bienniall_VW7_007_crop.jpg)
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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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