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Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art Society for Contemporary Art 29th Annual Exhibition THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHJCA60 April 22, 1969 -June 1, 1969 Josef Albers Varient: Grey Turns Violet, 1958 Sidney Janis Gallery 2 Milton Avery Nude by Red Sea, 1942 Richard Gray Gallery 3 Francois & Bernard Baschet Musical Sculpture with Three Cones- Amiens (for percussion and/ or bow), 1967 Waddell Gallery 4 Mary Bauermeister Cross-out, 1967 Galeria Bonino 5 Fernando Botero El Nino, 1961 Anonymous 6 Allan D'Arcangelo Landscape Q, 1969 Fischbach Gallery 7 Jordan Davies Untitled, 1967 Phyllis Kind Gallery 8 Dominick Di Meo Opaque Hysteria, 1966-67 Fairweather Hardin Gallery 9 Helen Frankenthaler Four Color Space, 1966 Andre Emmerich Gallery 10 Paul Feeley Alphard, 1964 Betty Parsons Gallery 11 Frank Gallo Girl in Leather Hat, 1969 Gilman Galleries 12 Jack Harris White Whale, 1968 Lent by the Artist 13 AI Held B W y_, 1967-68 Andre Emmerich Gallery 14 Charles Hinman Kookaburra, 1969 Richard Feigen Gallery 15 David Hockney Hollywood Garden, 1967 landau-Alan Gallery 16 Robert Hudson Black lift Allan Frumkin Gallery 17 Donald Judd Untitled, 1968 leo Castelli Gallery 18 Alex Katz Rudy and Edwin, 1968 Phyllis Kind Gallery 19 Donald Kaufman Two Buttes, 1969 Richard Feigen Gallery 20 Ellsworth Kelly Red and White, 1966 Sidney Janis Gallery 21 Phillip King Slant, 1965 Richard Feigen Gallery 22 Nicholas Krushenick Outspan, 1968 The Pace Gallery 23 June leaf The American Box-A Tin Theater Allan Frumkin Gallery 24 Sol lewitt A9-B9 from Serial Project #1, 1966 Dwan Gallery, Inc. 25 Heinz Mack Forest of light, 1968 Kovler Gallery 26 Marisol Couple, 1965-66 Sidney Janis Gallery 27 Joan Mitchell La Seine (quadriptychl Martha Jackson Gallery 28 Robert Motherwell Untitled, 1966 Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc. 29 Pablo Palazuelo Person Vert, 1962-64 Galerie Maeght 30 Philip Pearlstein Nude: 1965 Allan Frumkin Gallery 31 Jean Paul Riopelle Arlequin, 1967 Galerie Maeght 32 Charles Ross Window: prism grid View: dual overlaps progressive freeze-frame arrest of lateral motion CMuybridge) Sinse: flip book animation, 1968 Dwan Gallery, Inc. 33 Peter Saul Target Practice, 1968 Allan Frumkin Gallery 34 Alice Shaddle From Parrot Jungle, 1968 Lent by the Artist 35 David Sharpe Explore, 1969 LoGiudice Gallery Ltd. 36 Leon Polk Smith Seven Involvements in One, 1966 Galerie Cholette 37 Richard Smith Ring A Lingling, 1966 Richard Feigen Gallery 38 Bob Stanley Paul's Mud, 1968 Lent by the Artist 39 Henryk Stazewski Blue and Black Relief, 1961 Kazimir Gallery 40 Pierre Tal Coat Deesse Mere, 1965 Galerie Maeght 41 Antonio Ta pies Big X Scratched into Greys, 1965 Martha Jackson Gallery 42 Steven Jay Urry Untitled, 1 969 Lent by the Artist 43 Victor Vasarely Hoonan C, 1 963 Kovler Gallery 44 H. C. Westermann Angry Young Machine, 1960 Allan Frumkin Gallery 45 Gary Wojcik Span, 1969 Gilman Galleries Cover: Adolph Gottlieb, Expctnding, 1962 Gift to the Art Institute of Chicago from the Society for Contemporary Art .
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