38418 - 17 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART F0R 14 WEST 49TH STREET, NEW YORK IMMEDIATE RELEASE TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 7-MKE TO EDITORS OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY: Artists and lenders of paintings and sculptures here listed are natives or residents in various cities and towns throughout the country. Localities are given in every instance. Today, April 20, the large Exhibition of American Art 1609-1938, which the Museum of Modern Art has assembled for Paris,, will leave New York for France on the S.S. Lafayette. More than one thousand items are included in the exhibition which will be held at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, from May 24 to July 13. For more than a year, at the invitation of the French Government, the Museum has been assembling the exhibition. The largest section includes approximately 200 oils and watercolors, 40 sculptures, and 80 prints, the work of artists in all parts of the United States during the past three centuries. The exhibits shown in this section have been selected by Mr. A. Conger Goodyear, President of the Museum, assisted by Mr. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Director, and Miss Dorothy C. Miller, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture. Mr. Barr is sailing this week to supervise the in­ stallation of the exhibition in Paris. The following pieces of sculpture and contemporary paintings will be shown in the exhibition: CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS: GIFFORD BEAL, b. 1879, New York. Lives in New York. "Horse Tent" (1937) Lent by the Artist GEORGE WESLEY BELLOWS, b. 1882, Columbus, Ohio; d. 1925 "Stag at Sharkey's" (1909) Lent by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio . "Easter Snow" (1915) Lent by Mrs. Charles W. Goodyear, Buffalo, N. Y. "Elinor, Jean and Anna" (1920) Lent by the Albright Art' Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y. THOMAS HART BENTON, b. 1889, Neosho, Missouri. Lives in Kansas City, "Homestead" (1934) Mo. Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York "Going Home" (1934) Lent by Irving Blumenthal, New York GEORGE BIDDLE, b. 1885, Philadelphia. Lives at Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. "Frankie Loper" (1937) Lent by the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York PETER BLUME, b. 1906, Russia. Lives at Gaylordsville, Conn. "South of Scranton" (1931) Lent by the Artist ERNEST L. BLUMENSCHEIN, b. 1874, Pittsburgh, Pa. Lives in Taos, New Mexico "Jury for Trial of a Sheepherder for Murder" (1936) Lent by the Grand Central Art Galleries, New York -2- (JAMERON BOOTH, b. 1892, Erie, Pennsylvania. Lives in Minneapolis. "Street in Stillwater* (1936) Lent by the Minnesota Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration ROBERT BRACKMAN, b. 1896, Odessa, Russia. Lives in New York "Portrait of Charles A. Lindbergh" (1938) "Portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh" (1938) Lent by the Macbeth Gallery, New York ALEXANDER BROOK, b. 1898. Brooklyn, N. Y. Lives in New York "Summer Wind" (c.1934) Lent by the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York SAMUEL JOSEPH BROWN, b. 1907, Wilmington, Green" (1937) Lent by The Downtown Gallery, New York GLENN 0. COLEMAN, b. 1887. Springfield, Ohio; d. 1932 "Angelo's Place" (1929) Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York FRANCIS CRISS, b. 1901, London, England. Lives in New York "Americana" (1933) Lent by the Midtown Galleries, New York JOHN 8TEUART CURRY, b. 1897, Dunavant, Kansas. Lives at present in Madison, Wise. "The Stallion" (1937) Lent by the Walker Galleries, New York STUART DAVIS, b. 1894, Philadelphia. Lives in New York "Landscape with Garage Lights" (1933) Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York CHARLES DEMUTH, b. 1883, Lancaster, Pa. ; d. 1935 "Acrobats" (1916) Lent by Mrs. Lathrop Brown, New York "Dancing Sailors" (1917) Lent by Albert Rothbart, Ridgefield, Conn. "Illustration for Henry James' The Turn of the Screw" (1918) Lent by Frank C. Osborn, Manchester, Vermont "My Egypt" (1925) Lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Eggplant and Tomatoes" (1926) Lent by Philip Goodwin, New York "Red Poppies" (1929) Lent by Mrs. Edith Gregor Halpert, New York PRESTON DICKINSON, b. 1891. New York; d. 1930 "Industry" (before 1929) Lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Still Life with Demijohn" (1930) Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York ARTHUR G. DOVE, b. 1880, Canandalgua, N. Y. Lives in Geneva, N. Y. "Nircscer Go Fishin'" Lent by the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D. C. -3 GUY P^NE DU BOIS, b. 1884, Brooklyn, N. Y. Lives in New York. "Americans in Paris" (1987) Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York LOUIS MICHEL EILSHEMIUS, b. 1864, Arlington, N. J. Lives in New York "Samoa" (1907) Lent by Miss Adelaide Milton de G-root, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York LYONEL FEINING-ER, b. 1871, New York. Lived in Germany from 1886 until 1936. Now lives in New York. "Steamship Odin" (1927) Lent by the East River Gallery, New York ERNEST FIENE, b. 1894, Germany. Lives in New York "Yard Engine" (1937) Lent by the Artist LAUREN FORD, b. 1891, New York. Lives at Rye, New York "Little Saint John" Lent by Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, New York DAVID FREDENTHAL, b. 1914, Detroit, Mich. Lives in Detroit. "October" (1937) Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York WALTER GAY, b. 1856, Hingham, Mass. Lived in Paris, d. 1937 (Painting to be selected in Paris) WILLIAM J. (SLACKENS, b. 1870, Philadelphia. Lives in New York "Coney Island" Lent anonymously ANNE GOLDTHWAITE, b. Montgomery, Alabama. Lives in New York "Her Daughter" (1936) Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York ARSHILE GORKY, b. 1904, Russia. Lives in New York "Painting" (1936-37) Lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York WILLIAM GROPPER, b. 1897, New York. Lives at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. "The Senate" (1935) Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York GEORGE GROSZ, b. 1893, Berlin, Germany. Has lived in America since 1932 "Punishment" (1934) Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York 0. LOUIS GUGLIELMI, b. 1906, Milan, Italy. Lives in New York Came to America in 1914 "Wedding in South Street" (1936) Lent by the New York Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration GEORGE OVERBURY ("POP") HART, b. 1868, Cairo, 111.: d. 1933 "Riding Ponies, Palisades Amusement Park" (1926) "The Jury, Mexico" (1927) "The Merry-go-round, Oaxaca, Mexico" (1927) Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York "The Mill Bousaada" (1930) Lent by Mrs. John Parkinson, Jr., Westbury, New York ROBERT HENRI, b. 1865, Cincinnati, Ohio; d. 1929 "Portrait of George Luks" (1904) Lent by Miss Violet Organ, courtesy the Macbeth Gallery, N.Y. HILAIRE HILER, b. 1898, St. Paul, Minn. Lives at present in San Francisco "Pouter Pigeons" (1928) Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York ALEXANDER HOGUEJ, b. 1398, Memphis, Missouri. Lives in Dallas, Tex. "Drouth Survivors" (1936) Lent by the Boyer Galleries, New York -4- EDWARD HOPPER, b. 1883, Nyack, N. Y. Lives in New York "Italian Quarter, Gloucester" (1923) Lent by Mrs. John Osgood Blanchard, New York "Roofs of Washington Square" (1926) Lent by Frank K. LI." Rehn, New York "Manhattan Bridge Loop" (1928) Lent by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass. "Lighthouse at Two Lights" (1939) Lent by Mrs. Samuel A. Tucker, New York EARL HORTER, b. 1883, Philadelphia. Lives in Philadelphia "Rainy Night, Chinatown" (1937) Lent by the Artist FELICIE WALDO HOWELL, b. 1897, Honolulu, Hawaii. Lives in New York "The Chef" (1926) Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago JOE JONES, b. 1909, St. Louis, Mo. Lives in New York "We Want More Pay" (1936) Lent by the A. C. A. Gallery, New York MORRIS KANTOR, b. 1896, Russia. Lives in New City, N. Y. "Black Lace Parasol" (1931) Lent by the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D. C. BERNARD KARFIOL, b. 1886, near Budapest (of American parents) Lives in New York "Two Seated Figures" (1934) Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York HENRY GEORGE KELLER, b. 1870, Cleveland, Ohio. Lives in Cleveland "Rhythms" Lent by the Artist ROCKWELL KENT, b. 1882, Tarrytown Heights, N, Y. Lives at Ausable Forks, N. Y. "Road Roller" (1909) Lent by the Phillips Memorial Gallery, V/ashington, D. C. LEON KROLL, b. 1884, New York. Lives in New York "The Park, Winter" (1923) Lent by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio WALT KUHN, b. 1880, New York. Lives in New York "The Man from EdenM Lent by A. Conger Goodyear, New York YASUO KUNIYOSHI, b. 1893, Japan. Came to America, 1907. Lives in New York "Self Portrait as Golf Player" (1927) Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York ERNEST LAWSON, b. 1873, San Francisco, Calif. Lives in New York "The Little Church around the Corner" (1936) Lent by the Ferargll Galleries, New York JACK LEVINE, b. 1915, Boston, Mass. Lives in Boston "The Feast of Pure Reason" (1937) Lent by the Massachusetts Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration EDMUND D. LEWANDOWSKI, b. 1914, Milwaukee, Wise. Lives in Milwaukee "Pride of Algoma" (1937) Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York JONAS LIE, b. 1880, Norway. Lives in New York "Old Logging Road" (1922) Lent by the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y. GEORGE BENJAMIN LUKS, b. 1867, Willlamsport, Pa.; d. 1933 "Eleanor" (1927) Lent by the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R. I. "Railroad Crossing" (1930) Lent by Mr, and Mrs. Lesley Green Sheafer, New York -5- LOREN MacIVER, b. 1909. New York. Lives in New York "My House" (1934-35) Lent anonymously DE HIRSK MARGULES, b. 1899, Rumania. Lives in New York "Present and past, Gloucester" (1937) Lent by the Artist JOHN MARIN, b. 1870, Rutherford, N. J. Lives at Cliffside, N. J. "Lower Manhattan" (1920) "The Juggler" Lent by Philip G-oodwin, New York "Maine Islands" (1922) Lent by the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D. C. "Mount Chooorua" (1926) Lent by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. REGINALD MARSH, b. 1898, Paris (of American parents) Lives in New York "Why Not Use the fL'?" (1930) Lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York HENRY E. MATTSON, b. 1887, Gothenburg, Sweden. Lives in Woodstock, "The Wings of the Morning" (1937) N. Y. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York HENRY LEE McFEE, b. 1886, St. Louis, Mo. Lives in Woodstock, N. Y. "Still Life: Red Apples" Lent by the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York FRANK ALBERT MECHAU, b. 1903, Wakeeney, Kansas. Lives in Glenwood Springs, Colo. "Dangers of the Mail" study for mural in Post Office Department Building, Washington, D. C. Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, b. 1887, Sun Prairie, Wise. Lives in New York "Stables" (1932) Lent by Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit, Mich. "Bob's Steer Head" (1936) Lent by Arthur Milliken, Simsbury, Conn. JOSEPH FANDOLFINI, b. 1908, Italy. Came to America, 1912. Lives in New York "Night Will Fall and the Homeless Shall Be without Shelter"(1937) Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York WALDO PEIRCE, b. 1884, Bangor, Maine. Lives in New York "The County Fair" (1935) Lent by the Midtown Galleries, New York MARJORIE PHILLIPS, b. 1895, Bourbon, Ind. Lives in Washington, D.C. "Little Bouquet" Lent by the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D. C. HENRY VARNUM POOR, b. 1888, Chapman, Kansas. Lives in New City. N.Y. "The Disappointed Fisherman" (1932) Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York CHARLES PRENDERGAST, b. 1868, Boston. Lives in New York "Screen" (1937) Lent by the C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York MAURICE PRENDERGAST, b.1859, St. John's, Newfoundland; d. 1924. "Ponte della Paglla" Lent by the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D. C. "Campo Vittorio Emanuele, Siena" (1G98) Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York "Along the Coast" "At the Shore" Lent by Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, New York GREGORIO PRESTOPINO, b. 1907, New York. Lives in New York "Green Mountain Village" (1936) Lent by Mrs. Stanley Resor, Greenwich, Conn. -6- MAN RAY, b. 1890, Philaclelphia. Has lived in Paris since 1921 "La Voliere" (1919) Lent by Paul EluarcT, Paris DORIS ROSENTHAL, b. Riverside, Calif. Lives in New York "The Critics" (1937) Lent by the Midtown Galleries, New York PAUL STARRETT SAMPLE, b. 1896, Louisville, Ky. Lives in Pasadena, Calif. "Roque" (1934) Lent by the Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery, Canajoharie, New York GEORGES SCHREIBEil, b. 1904, Brussels, Belgium. Lives in New York "The Balcony" (1936) Lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York BEN SHAHN, b. 1898, Russia. Lives at present in Washington, D. C. "Six Witnesses Who Bought Eels from Vanzetti" (1931-32) Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Rice, New York CHAriLES SHEELER, b. 1883, Philadelphia. Lives in Ridgefield, Conn. "Classic Landscape" (1931) Lent by Edsel B. Ford, Dearborn, Mich. "Ephrata" (1933-34) Lent by the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass. MILLARD SHEETS, b. 1907, Pomona, Calif. Lives at Claremont, Calif. "Fog, Notley's Landing" Lent by the Mlloh Galleries, New York JOHN SLOAN, b. 1871, Lock Haven, Pa. Lives in New York "McSorley's Bar" (1912) Lent by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Mich. RAPHAEL SOYER, b. 1899, Russia. Lives in New York "Office Girls" (1936) Lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York EUGENE SPEICHER, b. 1883, Buffalo, N. Y. Lives in New York "Katharine Cornell" (c.1926) Lent by Miss Katharine Cornell, New York NILES SPENCER, b. 1893, Pawtucket, R. I. Lives in New York "Near Avenue A" (1933) Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York JOSEPH STELLA, b. 1880, Italy. Came to America about 1896. Lives in New York "American Landscape" (1929) Lent by Arthur F. Egner, South Orange, N. J. JOHN FRANCIS STENVALL, b. 1907, Rawlins, Wyoming. Lives in Chicago "American Palaces" (1936) Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York MAURICE STERNE, b. 1877, Libau, Latvia. Lives at present in San Francisco "Girl in Blue Chair" (1928) "Bazaar, Bali" (1929) Lent by the Lewisohn Collection, New York LEE TOWNSEND, b. 1895, Wyoming, 111, Lives in New York "Cooling Off" Lent by A. Conger Goodyear, New York ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ, b. 1880, Siberia, Russia. Came to America when a child. Lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. "Isadora Duncan: three studies" Lent by the Artist FRANKLIN CHENAULT WATKINS, b. 1894, New York. Lives in Philadelphia "Fire Eater" (1935) Lent by the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia -7-

MAX WEBER, b. 1881, Byelostok, Russia. Cane to Anerica, 1891. Lives at Great Neck, New York "Talnucists" (1934) Lent by the Jewish Theological Seninary of Anerica, New York JOHN WHORF, b. 1903, Winthrop, Mass. Lives in Boston "Thunderstorn" (1935) Lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

GRANT WOOD, b. 1892, Ananosa, Iowa. Lives in Iowa City, Iowa "Daughters cf Revolution" (1932) Lent by Edward G. Robinson, Hollywood, Calif. MARGUERITE ZORACH, b. 1G88, Santa Rosa, Calif. Lives in New York "The Circus" (1929) Lent by the Artist

WILLIAM ZORACH, b. 1887, Russia. Cane to Anerica, 1891. Lives in New York "Five Islands, Maine" (1933) Lent by the Artist

SCULPT Ux-iE RUSSELL BARNETT AITKEN, b. 1904, Cleveland, Ohio. Lives in Cleveland, Ohio "Student Song" (1933) glazed terra cotta Lent by the Walker Galleries, New York "Futility of a Well-ordered Life" (1935) glazed terra cotta Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York GEORGE GREY BARNARD, b. 1863, Beliefonto, Pa. Lives in New York "Abraham Lincoln" marble Lent by the Excelsior Savings Bank, New York ALEXANDER CALDER, b. 1898, Philadelphia, Fa. Lives in Connecticut "Mobile" (1931) metal Lent by James Johnson Sweeney, New York HAROLD CASH, b. 1395. Chattanooga, Tenn. Lives in New.York "Male Nude" (1930) bronze Lent by the Artist JO DAVIDSON, b. 1883, New York. Lives in New York "Dr. Albert Einstein" (c.1934) bronze Lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

HUNT DIEDERICH, b. 1834, Nuremberg, Germany. Lives in New York "Hounds" bronze Lent by the Milch Galleries, New York JACOB EPSTEIN, b. 1880, New York. Lives in England NSenegalese Woman" bronze Lent by the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y. ALFEO FAGGI, b. 1835, Florence, Italy. Cane to Anerica in 1913. Lives in Woodstock, New York "Portrait of Yone Noguchi" (1923) bronze Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis HERBERT FERBER, b. 1906, New York. Lives in New York "Exhausted" (1935) stone Lent by the Midtown Galleries, New York

DUNCAN FERGUSON, b. 1901, Shanghai, China. Lives at present in Baton Rouge, Louisiana "Mini" (1928) bronze Lent by the Newark Museum, Newark, N. J. JOHN BERNARD FLANNAGAN, b. 1898, Woburn, Mass. Lives in New York "The Triumph of the Egg" (1937) stone Lent by the Weyhe Gallery, New York -8-

IANNA GLENNY, b. 188S, Buffalo, N. Y. Lives in Buffalo "Young Jewess" (1935) cast stone Lent by the Artist IwAYLANDE GREGORY,b. 1905, Baxter Springs, Kansas. Lives in Metuchen, New Jersey "polo Players" (1934) porcelain "Sunr Bathers" (1934) Lent by the Boyer Galleries, New York |CHAIM GROSS, b. 1904, Austria. Came to America in 1931. Lives in New York "Handlebar Riders" (1935) lignum vitae Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York MINNA HARKAVY, b. 1895, Esthonia. Lives in New York "American Miner's Family" (1931) bronze Lent by the Midtown Galleries, New York HERBERT HASELTINE, b. 1877, Rome, Italy. Lives in Paris "Gassed Horses" bronze Lent by the Musee du Jeu de Paume, Paris GASTON LACHAISE, b. 1883, Paris, France. Came to America, 1906. Died in New York, 1935 "Standing Woman" (1912-27) bronze Lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Portrait Head" (1932) bronze Lent anonymously ROBERT LAURENT, b. 1890, Concarneau, France. Came to America in 1902. Lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. "Torso" (1926) mahogany Lent by the Downtown Gallery, New York ARTHUR LEE, b. 1881, Trondjhem, Norway. Lives in New York "Kneeling Woman" (1937-38) cast stone Lent by the Artist PAUL LIANSHIP, b. 1885, St. Paul, Minn. Lives in New York "Portrait of the Artist's Daughter" (1930) marble Lent by the Artist ELIE NADELMAN, b. 1885, Warsaw, Poland. Lives at Riverdalc-on- Hudson, N. Y. "Horse" (1920) bronze Lent by I/Ime. Helena Rubinstein, New York REUBEN NAKIAN, b. 1897, College Point, N. Y. Lives in New York "Young Calf" (1929) marble Lent by the Artist ISAMU NOGUCHI, b. 1904, Los Angeles, Calif. Lives in New York "Portrait of My Uncle" (1931) terra cotta Lent by the Artist HENRY VARNUM POOR, b. 1868, Chapman, Kansas. Lives in New City, N.Y. "Nude and Alligator" ceramic * "Ten Ni ht.s in a Bar Room" ceramic Lent by the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York FREDERIC REMINGTON, b. 1861, Canton, N. Y. ; d. 1909 "Broncho Buster" bronze Lent by the Douth.it t Gallery, New York CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, b. 1879, Buffalo, N. Y.J d. 1922 "The Last of His Race" (1915) bronze Lent by the Estate of Mary H. Runsey AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDEIIS, b. 1843, Dublin, Ireland. Died in New Hampshire, ISO'? "Portrait of Bastion-Lepage" (1830) bronze relief "Robert Louis Stevenson" (1837) bronze relief Lent by Homer Salnt-Gaudens, Pittsburgh, Pa. -9- HELENE SARDEAU, b. 1899, Antworp, Belgium. Lives at Croton-on- Hudson, N. Y. "The Lovers" (1937) terra cotta Lent by the Artist CONCETTA SCARAVAGLIONE, b. 1900, New York. Lives in New York "Girl Reading" (1936) terra cotta Lent by the New York Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration &IAURICE STERNE, b. 1877, Libau, Latvia. Lives at present in San Francisco "Head of a Bomb Thrower" (1909) bronze Lent by the Lewisohn Collection, New York CARL WALTERS, b. 1883, Fort Lladison, Iowa. Lives at Woodstock, N "Ella" (1927) ceramic Lent by the Downtown G-allery, New York "Baby Hippo"'(1935) ceramic Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York "Horse" (1937) ceramic Lent anonymously WARREN V/KEELOCK, b. 1880, Sutton, Mass. Lives in New York "The Mayor" (1937) lignum vitae Lent anonymously GERTRUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY, b. New York. Lives in New York "Mother and Child" marble Lent by the Artist WILLIAM ZORACH, b. 1837, Russia. Came to America, 1891. Lives in New York "Child on Pony" (1933) stone Lent by the Artist