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A SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY IN THE UNITED STATES CONTEMPORARY PAINTING IN THE UNITED STATES THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

CONTEMPORARY PAINTING IN THE UNITED STATES

A SPECIAL EXHIBITION APRIL i9 THROUGH APRIL 27

CV PREFACE

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is privileged to ex- hibit for a brief period, April ig to April 27 inclusive, a carefully selected collection of approximately 200 paint- ings and Ioo water colors by some of our most gifted contemporary painters. The exhibition in is necessarily brief becausethe , divided into three units according to plan, are scheduled shortly to go to the art centers of the other American republics, where they will be shown during the remainder of the year. The Office of the Coördinator of Commercial and Cul- tural Relations between the American Republics is col- laborating with several museums in these exhibitions, which are intended to familiarize our southern neighbors with present trends in American painting. The assem- blage of the paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art prior to transshipment has made it possible for the combined exhibitions to be shown in a New York pre- view before their departure. The Museum wishes to ex- press its appreciation to the various members of the com- mittees here mentioned, as well as to the artists them- selves, for their collaboration and assistance. FRANCIS HENRY TAYLOR Director ORGANIZATION

The picturesbeing shown together at The Metropoli- tan Museum of Art are to be divided into three separate exhibitions and circulated in the art centers of the other American republics. The planning of these exhibitions has been vested in committees representing the five museums listed below and working in coöperation with the office of Nelson A. Rockefeller, the Coördinator of Commercial and Cul- tural Relations between the American Republics. The Cultural Relations Division of the Coördinator's office is chairmaned by Dr. Robert G. Caldwell.

COMMITTEE ON ART

CHAIRMAN, JOHN E. ABBOTT-Executive Vice-Presi- dent, The Museum of ALFRED H. BARR, JR. The Museum of Modern-Director, Art JULIANA R. FORCE-Director, The Whitney Museum of American Art LAURANCE P. RoBERTs-Director, The FRANCIS HENRY TAYLOR-Di rector, The Metropolitan Museum of Art GEORGE C. VAILLANT-Assistant Curator of Mexican Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, The American Museum of Natural History

STANTON L. CATLIN-Assistant to the Chairman

6 COMMITTEE ON SELECTION AND HANGING JOHN I. H. BAUR DOROTHY C. MILLER

LLOYD GOODRICH HERMON MORE HERMANN WARNER WILLIAMS, JR.

GRACE L. MCCANN MORLEY Special Consultant to the Committee on Art and Latin- American Representative

HELEN APPLETON READ Director of the Exhibitions and Editor of the Catalogue in Spanish and Portuguese

7 LIST OF LENDERS The Albright Art Gallery (i) The Art Institute of (2) John C. Atherton (3) Darrel Austin (¢) Gifford Beal (5) Raymond Breinin (6) The Brooklyn Museum (7) Paul Cadmus (8) The Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery (9) The Carnegie Institute (io) John Carroll (ii) Federico Castellon (12) Nicolai Cikovsky (i3) Stephen C. Clark (14) The (15) Howard Norton Cook (16) Jon Corbino 07) The Corcoran Gallery of Art (i8) Francis Criss (i9) (20) Adolf Arthur Dehn (21) John Stockton De Martelly (22) John Dewey (23) Guy Pene Du Bois (24) Louis Michel Eilshemius (25) Mrs. Hendrick Eustis (26) William Dean Fausett (27) Lyonel Feininger (28) Ernest Fiene (29) Oronzo Gasparo (30) Balcomb Greene (3 i) 0. Louis Guglielmi (32) Mrs. William Averell Harriman (33) Alexandre Hogue (34) (35) Joe Jones (36) Henry George Keller (37) (38) Edmund D. Lewandowski (39) Samuel A. Lewisohn (40) De Hirsh Margules (41) Reginald Marsh (42) Fletcher Martin (43) The Metropolitan Museum of Art (44) Barse Miller (45) The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (46) The (47) The Nebraska Art Association (48) Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neuberger (49) The Newark Museum (50) William S. Paley (51) William C. Palmer (52) Mrs. Ogden Phipps (53) John Pike (54) Ogden M. Pleissner (55) David L. Podell (56) The Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art (57) Paul Starrett Sample (58) Henry Ernest Schnackenberg (59)

() Zoltan L. Sepeshy(6o) Mr. and Mrs. John Sheppard (61) Mitchell Siporin (62) Jacob Getlar Smith (63) (64) The Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts (65) Thomas J. Watson (66) The Whitney Museum of American Art (67) John Whorf (68) (69) William Zorach (70) Anonymous (71)

10 LIST OF PAINTINGS The numbers in parenthesis which follow the titles of the paintings and water colors listed below refer to the corresponding numbers in the list of lenders on page 6. It is expected that a few of the exhibits will not arrive in time to be included in the New York preview. JOHN C. ATHERTON I. The Backyard (3) DARREL AUSTIN 2. Catamount (47) 3. The Stream (4) GIFFORD BEAL 4. The Spotlight (2) 5. Fisherman (67) 6. The Circus at the Hippodrome (5) GEORGE W. BELLOWS 7. Dempsey and Firpo (67) 8. The Sand Cart (7) THOMAS HART BENTON q. Homestead (47) io. Roasting Ears (44) I i. Louisiana Rice Fields (7) HENRY BILLINGS 12. Lehigh Valley (67) 13. Nude (67) 14. Two Girls (44) 15. SwampFolk (7) PETER BLUME 16. Landscape and Poppies (47) 17. The Light of the World (67) AARON BOHROD 18. Landscape near Chicago (67) LOUIS BOUCHE 19. Jane and Tuffy (44) 20. Stamford Harbor (67) ALEXANDER BROOK 21. The Sentinels (67) 22. Morning Light (67) 23. The Tragic Muse (50) CHARLES E. BURCHFIELD 24. Winter Twilight (67) 25. Old House by Creek (67) 26. November Evening (44) PAUL CADMUS 27. Venus and Adonis (8) 28. Gilding the Acrobats (8) JOHN CARROLL 29. Draped Figure (I I) CLARENCE HOLBROOK CARTER 30. Immortal Water (67) GLENN O. COLEMAN 31. Downtown Street (67) 32. The Mirror (67) JON CORBINO 33. Harvest Festival (17) 34. The Circus Tent (9) FRANCIS CRISS 35. Astor Place (67) 36. "El, " 1939 Version (it) JOHN STEUART CURRY 37. Spring Shower (44)

I2 38. The Flying Codonas(67) 39" View of Madison (20) 40. Summer Landscape (47) 41. House and Street (67) JOHN STOCKTON DE MARTELLY 42. No More Mowing (22) 43" My Egypt (67) 44. From the Garden of the Chateau (67) PRESTON DICKINSON 45" Still Life-Bread and Fruit (67) 46. Industry (67) GUY PENE DU BOIS 47. The Battery (24) 48. Meditation (24) LOUIS MICHEL EILSHEMIUS 49. Sunburst (25) 50. Woodland Brook (25) PHILIP HOWARD EVERGOOD 51. Through the Mill (67) ERNEST FIENE 52. Skyline under Brooklyn Bridge (29) 53. Dyckman Street Church (67) JARED FRENCH 54. Summer's Ending (67) 55. Three Women and a Life Guard (53) WILLIAM J. GLACKENS 56. Girl in Black and White (67) 57. The Green Car (44) 58. The Drive, Central Park (15) ARSHILE GORKY 59. Argoola (47)

i3 BALCOMB GREENE 6o. The Ancient Form (47) 61. The Blue World (31) WILLIAM CROPPER 62. Homeless (44) 63. The Hunt (44) 64. Old Tree and Old People (67) 0. LOUIS GUGLIELMI 65. The Tenements (32) MARSDEN HARTLEY 66. Ghosts of the Forest (7) 67. The Old Bars, Dogtown (67) 68. The Spent Wave (47) 69. Storm Tide (67) 70. Moira (9) ALEXANDRE HOGUE 71. Drought-Stricken Area (34) 72. Erosion No. 3-The Crucified Land (34) 73. Early Sunday Morning (67) 74. Night Windows (47) PETER HURD 75. Anselmo's House (35) 76. Boy from the Plains (49) 77. Ranch near Encimo (35) JOE JONES 78. Threshing (44) 79. Wheat (36) JOHN KANE 8o. Crossing the junction (71) 81. Prosperity's Increase (51) MORRIS KANTOR 82. On the Beach (44) 83. Skyrocket (67)

14 BERNARD KARFIOL 84. Hilda (67) 85. SeatedNude (47) 86. Christina (io)

ROCKWELL KENT 87. Winter (44) 88. Shadows of Evening (67) 89. Toilers of the Sea (40) LEON KROLL go. Nude, Babette (67) qt. Cape Ann (44) 92. Road through the Willows (67) WALT KUHN 93. The Blue Clown (67) 94" Adirondack Guide (33) YASUOKUNIYOSHI 95. I'm Tired (67) 96. Self-Portrait as a Golf Player (47) 97.1 Think So (i) 98. High Bridge (67) 99. Central Park, Winter (71) 100. Winter (7) DORIS EMRICK LEE Io1. Catastrophe (44) JULIAN E. LEVI 102. Shrimp Scow on Barnegat Bay (44) JACK LEVINE 103. The Syndicate (38) Io4. The Millionaire (56) GEORGE BENJAMIN LUKS 105. Eleanor (57) i o6. Hester Street (7)

i5 LOREN MACIVER 107. Moonlight (23) io8. Garden Labyrinth (47) PEPPINO MANGRAVITE Ioq. City People in the Country (67) REGINALD MARSH I Io. Why Not Use the "L"? (67) III. Gaiety Burlesque (26) I12. The Bowl (42) 113. High Yaller (61) FLETCHER MARTIN 114. The Embrace (43) 115. Tomorrow and Tomorrow (43) HENRY ELIS MATTSON I16. Wings of the Morning (44) 117- Spring (67) 118. OpenSea (66) HENRY LEE McFEE I I9. Crow with Peaches (67) 120. Still Life with Striped Curtain (44) FRANK MECHAU 121. Dangers of the Mail (47) 122. Pony Express (47) 123. The Fitting Room (44) 124. Business of the Day (67) GEORGIA O'KEEFFE 125. The White Flower (67) WALDO PEIRCE 126. After the Show (67) 127. Haircut by the Sea (44) OGDEN M. PLEISSNER 128. Storm over Equinox (55)

i6 HENRY VARNUM POOR 129. The Disappointed Fisherman (44) 130. The Pink Tablecloth (15) 131. Boy with a Bow (50) MAURICE B. PRENDERGAST 132. Promenade, Gloucester (67) 133. The Cove (67) HENRY ERNEST SCHNAKENBERG 134. Mourning Doves (44) 135" Conversation (67) 136. A Pastoral Landscape (59) ZOLTAN L. SEPESHY 137. In the Day's Work (6o) 138. Afternoon Skiing (48) 139. Handball (47) 140. River Rouge Plant (67) 141. Bucks County Barn (47) 142. Backyards, Greenwich Village (67) 143. Pigeons (46) RAPHAEL SOYER 144. Office Girls (67) 145. Window Shoppers (64) 146. Fourteenth Street Midinette (64) EUGENE E. SPEICHER 147. Marianna (67) 148. The Mountaineer (14) NILES SPENCER 149. Near Avenue A (47) 150. The Green Table (67) MAURICE STERNE 151. Inez (40) 152. Girl in Blue Chair (47)

17 FRANKLIN C. WATKINS 153. Soliloquy (67) 154. Summer Fragrance (18) MAX WEBER 155. Music (7) 156. Chinese Restaurant (67) 157. Straggly Pines (44)

18 LIST OF WATER COLORS

JOHN C. ATHERTON 158. Object Construction (3) RAINEY BENNETT 159. Caripito Village (44) 16o. Caracas Country Club, First Tee (44) PETER BLUME 161. Study for Parade (oil) (47) AARON BOHROD 162. Farm Ruins (7) 163. Chicago Street in Winter (67) 164. Frame Houses (44) RAYMOND BREININ 165. One Morning (47) 166. Filling Station (7) 167. Interior with Ancestor (6) CHARLES E. BURCHFIELD 168. Ice Glare (67) 16q. The False Front (44) 170. Six O'Clock (65) 17 1. February Thaw (7 ) CHARLES CAMPBELL 172. Texas Boudoir (67) CLARENCE HOLBROOK CARTER 173. The Guardian Angel (67) FEDERICO CASTELLON 174. Two Sisters (12) 175. Two Women (12)

19 NICOLAI CIKOVSKY 176. Candlewood Lake (13) 177. Pine Trees (13) HOWARD NORTON COOK 178. Canyon in Winter (16) 179. Windswept Pine (16) 18o. Aspen Forest (16) LUCILLE CORCOS 181. Afternoon at the Zoo (67) ADOLF ARTHUR DEHN 182. Sea and Rocks (7) 183. White Leghorns on the Hudson (44) 184. Lake Mead (21) 185. Approach to Boulder Dam (21) CHARLES DEMUTH 186. Stairs, Provincetown (47) 187. August Lilies (67) 188. The Acrobats (47) PHILIP LATIMER DIKE 18q. Old Domingo Mine (44) STUART CARSON EDIE 19o. The Mask (7) WILLIAM DEAN FAUSETT 191. Vermont in Late Autumn (27) 192. Landscape (27) LYONEL FEININGER 193. The Beach (7) 194. The Island (28) 195. The Cutter "Fremado II" (28) ERNEST FIENE 196. Low Clouds, Adirondacks (7) 197. Lake George, Evening (29) 198. Lake George (29)

20 KARL R. FREE 19q. Finale (67) 200. Entry of the White Horse (67) ORONZO GASPARO 201. The Coal Silo (30) 202. Italiopa (47) GEORGE GROSZ 203. New York Harbor (44) 204. Trees and Underbrush, Cape Cod (44) 205. Dune Country, Cape Cod (44) 206. Punishment (47) GEORGE OVERBURY HART 207. The Bahamas (67) 208. The Merry-Go-Round, Oaxaca, Mexico (47) tog. Horse Sale-Trying the Horses (47) 21o. Fruit Packers, Tehuantepec, Mexico (47) BERTRAM HARTMAN 211. Telephone Building (67) HILAIRE HILER 212. Pouter Pigeons (47) EDWARD HOPPER 213. Box Factory, Gloucester (47) 214. House on Pamet River (67) 215. Lombard's House (67) 216. The Mansard Roof (7) EARLE HORTER 217. Gloucester Docks (67) HENRY GEORGE KELLER 218. A Drowsy Company (37) 219. Bird Rock, California (67) DONG KINGMAN 220. A Morning Picture (44) 221. From My Roof (47)

21 EDMUND D. LEWANDOWSKI 222. Industrial Composition (7) 223. Ventilators (39) DE HIRSH MARGULES 224. Present and Past, Gloucester (41) 225. Crow Village, No. 5 (41) 226. Blue Boats (41) JOHN MARIN 227. Pertaining to Deer Isle -The Harbor, No. 1 (44) 228. Sunset(67) 229. Franconia Range-Mountain Peaks (44) 230. Camden Mountain across the Bay (47) REGINALD MARSH 231. Grand-Tier Box (44) 232. Memories of the Stork Club (42) BARSE MILLER 233. The Newborn (7) 234" Mill at Island Pond, Vermont (45) WILLIAM C. PALMER 235. Fossil Hunter (52) 236. Fisherman's Cove (52) JOHN PIKE 237. The Favorite Spot, North Carolina (54) 238. The Tree Perch, North Carolina (54) OGDEN M. PLEISSNER 239. Nebraska Farm (55) MAURICE B. PRENDERGAST 240. The East River (47) 241. Central Park, 1901 (67) 242. The Bridle Path, Central Park (67) PAUL STARRETT SAMPLE 243. The Road to Berlin Corners (7) 244" Whitcomb's Mill (58)

22 GEORGES SCHREIBER 245. Second Balcony (67) 246.5 A. M., Elko, Nevada (44) 247. New Orleans Night (44) ZOLTAN L. SEPESHY 248. Wheat (6o) 249. Lake Crystal (6o) BEN SHAHN 250. Scotch Run, West Virginia (67) CHARLES SHEELER 251. Bucks County Barn (67) MILLARD SHEETS 252. Hog Lot (7) 253. Black Horse (67) MITCHELL SIPORIN 254. Eviction (62) JACOB GETLAR SMITH 255. The Widow's Garden (63) ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ 256. Isadora Duncan I (47) 257. Isadora Duncan II (47) JOHN WHORF 258. Rainy Night (68) 259. The Cabin-Tennessee (7) 260. The Thaw (68) 261. Rainy Day (67) ANDREW WYETH 262. The Sea Captain's House (69) 263. From Mt. Kearsarge (69) WILLIAM ZORACH 264. Maine Landscape (67) 265. Rohinhood Cove, Maine (70) 266. Malden Island, Maine (70) 267. The Bridge at Arrowsic (70) THE MUSEUM PRESS