1940 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Jan 10–Feb 18, 1940
View the full exhibition catalogue at the Internet Archive.
Artists
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Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
5 works in the collection -
John Taylor Arms
8 works in the collection -
Peggy Bacon
33 works in the collection -
Saul Baizerman
2 works in the collection -
Richmond Barthé
2 works in the collection -
Michael Baxte
1 exhibition -
A. S. Baylinson
5 exhibitions -
Gifford R. Beal
10 works in the collection -
Cecil C. Bell
2 works in the collection -
Thomas Hart Benton
32 works in the collection -
Saul Berman
5 exhibitions -
Virginia Berresford
3 works in the collection -
Frank Besedick
1 exhibition -
George Biddle
18 works in the collection -
Henry Billings
7 works in the collection -
S.F. Bilotti
2 works in the collection -
Isabel Bishop
74 works in the collection -
Arnold Blanch
6 works in the collection -
Lucile Blanch
15 works in the collection -
Julius Bloch
13 works in the collection -
Peter Blume
7 works in the collection -
Aaron Bohrod
10 works in the collection -
Louis Bouché
6 works in the collection -
Fiske Boyd
10 works in the collection -
Alexander Brook
9 works in the collection -
Byron Browne
7 works in the collection -
Sonia Gordon Brown
1 work in the collection -
Edward Bruce
1 work in the collection -
Audrey Buller
1 work in the collection -
Charles Burchfield
38 works in the collection -
Jacob Burck
1 work in the collection -
Paul Burlin
13 works in the collection -
David Burliuk
6 works in the collection -
Betty Burroughs
1 work in the collection -
Paul Cadmus
11 works in the collection -
John Carroll
3 works in the collection -
Clarence Holbrook Carter
5 works in the collection -
Federico Castellón
97 works in the collection -
Albino Cavallito
9 exhibitions -
Nicolai Cikovsky
1 work in the collection -
Minna Citron
3 works in the collection -
Jon Corbino
1 work in the collection -
John Edward Costigan
6 works in the collection -
Lee Brown Coye
3 exhibitions -
Thomas Craig
4 exhibitions -
Francis Criss
3 works in the collection -
John Steuart Curry
13 works in the collection -
Lewis C. Daniel
34 works in the collection -
Jo Davidson
9 works in the collection -
Gladys Rockmore Davis
5 exhibitions -
Hubert Davis
2 works in the collection -
Stuart Davis
27 works in the collection -
Horace Day
9 exhibitions -
José de Creeft
3 works in the collection -
Adolf Dehn
48 works in the collection -
John Stockton deMartelly
5 works in the collection -
José de Rivera
3 works in the collection -
Frederick K. Detwiller
3 exhibitions -
Adolphe Dioda
1 exhibition -
Nathaniel Dirk
2 works in the collection -
Stevan Dohanos
5 works in the collection -
Thomas Donnelly
6 works in the collection -
Arthur Dove
8 works in the collection -
Guy Pène Du Bois
56 works in the collection -
Mabel Dwight
27 works in the collection -
Stuart Edie
2 works in the collection -
Franc Epping
2 exhibitions -
Emlen Etting
2 works in the collection -
Philip Evergood
12 works in the collection -
Lorser Feitelson
1 work in the collection -
Herbert Ferber
6 works in the collection -
Duncan Ferguson
2 works in the collection -
Louis G. Ferstadt
1 work in the collection -
Mitchell Fields
3 exhibitions -
Ernest Fiene
19 works in the collection -
Paul Fiene
5 works in the collection -
Eugene C. Fitsch
4 exhibitions -
John B. Flannagan
8 works in the collection -
Karl E. Fortess
9 exhibitions -
Walter K. Frame
1 work in the collection -
Don Freeman
9 works in the collection -
Jared French
29 works in the collection -
Wanda Gág
27 works in the collection -
Emil Ganso
26 works in the collection -
Oronzo Gasparo
10 exhibitions -
Eugenie Gershoy
8 works in the collection -
C. K. Gleeson
1 exhibition -
Maurice Glickman
14 exhibitions -
Lloyd Lozes Goff
2 works in the collection -
Aaron J. Goodelman
13 exhibitions -
Arshile Gorky
11 works in the collection -
Douglas W. Gorsline
5 exhibitions -
Harry Gottlieb
6 works in the collection -
Dorothea Greenbaum
2 works in the collection -
William Gropper
77 works in the collection -
Chaim Gross
14 works in the collection -
George Grosz
8 works in the collection -
John Groth
4 exhibitions -
Louis Guglielmi
4 works in the collection -
Philip Guston
10 works in the collection -
James Guy
7 exhibitions -
Robert Gwathmey
2 works in the collection -
Minna Harkavy
1 work in the collection -
Abraham Harriton
2 works in the collection -
Marsden Hartley
19 works in the collection -
Léon Hartl
4 works in the collection -
Bertram Hartman
3 works in the collection -
Rosella Hartman
5 works in the collection -
Milton Hebald
2 works in the collection -
Albert Heckman
3 works in the collection -
Eugene Higgins
30 works in the collection -
Joseph Hirsch
15 works in the collection -
Alexandre Hogue
6 exhibitions -
Edward Hopper
3,152 works in the collection -
Earl Horter
11 works in the collection -
John Hovannes
11 exhibitions -
Victoria Hutson Huntley
8 works in the collection -
Paul Hyun
4 exhibitions -
Joe Jones
4 works in the collection -
Mervin Jules
4 works in the collection -
Margaret Brassler Kane
4 exhibitions -
Morris Kantor
14 works in the collection -
Bernard Karfiol
9 works in the collection -
Henry G. Keller
1 work in the collection -
Leon Kelly
6 works in the collection -
Georgina Klitgaard
5 works in the collection -
Frederic Knight
3 exhibitions -
John Koch
4 works in the collection -
Benjamin Kopman
13 works in the collection -
Romuald Kraus
1 exhibition -
Henry Kreis
1 work in the collection -
Leon Kroll
4 works in the collection -
Max Kuehne
20 works in the collection -
Walt Kuhn
17 works in the collection -
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
77 works in the collection -
Lawrence Kupferman
1 work in the collection -
Armin Landeck
97 works in the collection -
Edward Laning
6 works in the collection -
J.J. Lankes
2 works in the collection -
Barbara Latham
1 work in the collection -
Robert Laurent
7 works in the collection -
Rico Lebrun
5 works in the collection -
Arthur Lee
2 works in the collection -
Doris Lee
16 exhibitions -
Julian Levi
3 works in the collection -
Jack Levine
5 works in the collection -
Martin Lewis
9 works in the collection -
Russell Limbach
2 works in the collection -
Charles Locke
18 works in the collection -
Frank London
3 exhibitions -
Louis Lozowick
49 works in the collection -
Molly Luce
1 work in the collection -
Luigi Lucioni
13 works in the collection -
Oronzio Maldarelli
2 works in the collection -
Peppino Gino Mangravite
6 works in the collection -
Berta Margoulies
1 work in the collection -
George Marinko
4 exhibitions -
Kyra Markham
2 works in the collection -
Jack Markow
3 exhibitions -
Reginald Marsh
188 works in the collection -
Fletcher Martin
4 works in the collection -
Antonio P. Martino
2 exhibitions -
Henry Mattson
6 works in the collection -
John Ward McClellan
1 exhibition -
Henry Lee McFee
7 works in the collection -
William C. McNulty
2 works in the collection -
Frank Mechau Jr.
3 exhibitions -
Felicia Meyer
2 works in the collection -
G. Macculloch Miller
2 exhibitions -
Helen Miller
2 exhibitions -
Kenneth Hayes Miller
134 works in the collection -
Eugene Morley
5 exhibitions -
Herta Moselsio
1 exhibition -
Simon Moselsio
1 work in the collection -
Thomas W. Nason
4 works in the collection -
Edith Newton
2 works in the collection -
Isamu Noguchi
17 works in the collection -
William C. Palmer
2 works in the collection -
Waldo Peirce
1 work in the collection -
Marjorie Phillips
1 work in the collection -
George Picken
3 works in the collection -
Hobson Pittman
2 works in the collection -
Henry Varnum Poor
2 works in the collection -
Gregorio Prestopino
2 works in the collection -
Mac Raboy
3 exhibitions -
Daniel Rasmusson
2 works in the collection -
Louis Ribak
4 works in the collection -
Walter Du Bois Richards
3 exhibitions -
Hugo Robus
3 works in the collection -
Caroline Speare Rohland
6 works in the collection -
Paul Rohland
5 works in the collection -
Umberto Romano
6 works in the collection -
Charles Rosen
3 works in the collection -
Sanford Ross
3 exhibitions -
Lincoln Rothschild
1 work in the collection -
Charles Rudy
6 exhibitions -
Andrée Ruellan
6 works in the collection -
Allen Saalburg
8 works in the collection -
Hélène Sardeau
1 work in the collection -
Concetta Scaravaglione
2 works in the collection -
Katherine Schmidt
11 works in the collection -
Henry Schnakenberg
12 works in the collection -
Henry Schonbauer
6 exhibitions -
Georges Schreiber
13 works in the collection -
Charles E. Shannon
1 exhibition -
William Sharp
1 exhibition -
Charles Sheeler
31 works in the collection -
Millard Sheets
2 works in the collection -
Symeon Shimin
3 exhibitions -
John Sloan
164 works in the collection -
Louis Slobodkin
8 exhibitions -
Judson Smith
1 work in the collection -
Lawrence Beal Smith
1 work in the collection -
Raphael Soyer
50 works in the collection -
Eugene Speicher
14 works in the collection -
Francis Speight
3 exhibitions -
Niles Spencer
6 works in the collection -
Benton Murdoch Spruance
40 works in the collection -
Everett Spruce
1 work in the collection -
Joseph Stella
21 works in the collection -
Harry Sternberg
19 works in the collection -
Dudley V. Talcott
3 exhibitions -
Prentiss Hottel Taylor
2 works in the collection -
Byron Thomas
5 exhibitions -
Jennings Tofel
1 work in the collection -
Manuel J. Tolegian
4 exhibitions -
Bradley Walker Tomlin
6 works in the collection -
Dorothy Varian
6 works in the collection -
Carl Walters
5 works in the collection -
Marion Walton
12 exhibitions -
Heinz Warneke
11 exhibitions -
Hyman Warsager
1 work in the collection -
Jane Wasey
2 works in the collection -
Franklin C. Watkins
3 works in the collection -
Nan Watson
7 works in the collection -
Max Weber
14 works in the collection -
Stow Wengenroth
4 works in the collection -
Nat Werner
2 works in the collection -
Warren Wheelock
1 work in the collection -
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
6 works in the collection -
Harry Wickey
13 works in the collection -
Grant Wood
12 works in the collection -
Marguerite Zorach
9 works in the collection -
William Zorach
26 works in the collection
In the News
“. . . the show [. . .] sets and maintains a pace for which there is very possibly no precedent . . .” —The New York Times
“The show, if uneven in quality, and in spots dubious enough, is alive. It is stimulating and provocative.” —The New York Times
“. . . say what you like, the show makes a very definite impact.” —The New York Times
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