A SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY PAINTING 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 New York is necessarily brief becausethe paintings, 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 Modern Art 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 Brooklyn Museum 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 Chicago (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 Cleveland Museum of Art (15) Howard Norton Cook (16) Jon Corbino 07) The Corcoran Gallery of Art (i8) Francis Criss (i9) John Steuart Curry (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) Peter Hurd (35) Joe Jones (36) Henry George Keller (37) Jack Levine (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 Museum of Modern Art (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) Raphael Soyer (64) The Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts (65) Thomas J. Watson (66) The Whitney Museum of American Art (67) John Whorf (68) Andrew Wyeth (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) ISABEL BISHOP 13. Nude (67) 14. Two Girls (44) ARNOLD BLANCH 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) STUART DAVIS 40. Summer Landscape (47) 41. House and Street (67) JOHN STOCKTON DE MARTELLY 42. No More Mowing (22) CHARLES DEMUTH 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) ROBERT HENRI 69. Storm Tide (67) 70. Moira (9) ALEXANDRE HOGUE 71. Drought-Stricken Area (34) 72. Erosion No. 3-The Crucified Land (34) EDWARD HOPPER 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) ERNEST LAWSON 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) KENNETH HAYES MILLER 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.