Third Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 10–Dec 10, 1936
Cover for the Third Biennial catalogue
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Artists
- Gifford R. Beal
- Maurice Becker
- Saul Berman
- Virginia Berresford
- Edward Biberman
- Henry Billings
- Isabel Bishop
- Arnold Blanch
- Lucile Blanch
- Julius Bloch
- Aaron Bohrod
- Louis Bouché
- Fiske Boyd
- Alexander Brook
- Edward Bruce
- Audrey Buller
- Paul Burlin
- Paul Cadmus
- John Carroll
- Nicolai Cikovsky
- Jon Corbino
- Francis Criss
- John Steuart Curry
- Stuart Davis
- Nathaniel Dirk
- Thomas Donnelly
- Arthur Dove
- Stephen Etnier
- Emlen Etting
- Philip Evergood
- Ernest Fiene
- Mary Fife
- Don Freeman
- Jared French
- Arnold Friedman
- Emil Ganso
- Walter Gardner
- William Glackens
- Arshile Gorky
- Harry Gottlieb
- John D. Graham
- William Gropper
- Louis Guglielmi
- Bertram Hartman
- Zoltan Hecht
- Eugene Higgins
- Stefan Hirsch
- Alexandre Hogue
- Mary Hoover
- Edward Hopper
- Joe Jones
- Morris Kantor
- Bernard Karfiol
- H. E. Kleinert
- Georgina Klitgaard
- Benjamin Kopman
- Alexander J. Kostellow
- Leon Kroll
- Max Kuehne
- Walt Kuhn
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi
- Richard Lahey
- Edward Laning
- Ernest Lawson
- Doris Lee
- John Ward Lockwood
- Frank London
- Molly Luce
- Luigi Lucioni
- Eugene Ludins
- Peppino Gino Mangravite
- John Marin
- Reginald Marsh
- Henry Mattson
- Jan Matulka
- Henry Lee McFee
- Frank Mechau Jr.
- Austin Mecklem
- Herbert Meyer
- Kenneth Hayes Miller
- Paul Mommer
- Jerome Myers
- C. G. Nelson
- William C. Palmer
- Waldo Peirce
- Harley Perkins
- George Picken
- Joseph Pollet
- Henry Varnum Poor
- Constantine Pougialis
- Charles James Prendergast
- Walter Quirt
- Edna Reindel
- Louis Ribak
- Paul Rohland
- Samuel Rosenberg
- Charles Rosen
- Theodore Roszak
- H. D. Rothschild
- Louis Schanker
- Saul Schary
- Henry Schnakenberg
- Charles Sheeler
- Clyde Singer
- John Sloan
- Judson Smith
- Moses Soyer
- Raphael Soyer
- Eugene Speicher
- Niles Spencer
- Everett Spruce
- Joseph Stella
- Byron Thomas
- Nahum Tschacbasov
- Allen Tucker
- Dorothy Varian
- Franklin C. Watkins
- Nan Watson
- Max Weber
- Esther Williams
- Arnold Wiltz
- Edmund Yaghjian
- Zsissly
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In the News
“The third biennial of American painting at the Whitney Museum is an excellent show.” —The New York Times
“All the galleries present an appearance of zest, and variety is one of the keynotes.” —The New York Times
“There is a sense of vitality here, and in the scope and range of subject matter, a feeling that no one tendency dominates contemporary American painting.” —The Washington Post
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