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, <N. Car. Lives in Phila. "Portrait of Mrs. Simmons" (1936) Lent by the Pennsylvania Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration CHARLES E. BURCHFIELD, b. 1893, Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio. Lives at Lives at Gardenville, New York "The Song of the Katydids on an August Morning" (1917) Lent by Frank K. M. Rehn, New York "Night Wind" (1918) "Promenade" (1928) Lent by A. Conger Goodyear, New York "The Interurban Line" (1920) Lent by the Museum of Modern Art, New York PAUL CADMUS, b. 1904, New York. Lives in New York "Venus and Adonis" (1936) Lent by the Midtown Galleries, New York NICOLAI CIKOVSKY, b. 1894, Plnsk, Poland. Lives in Washington, D.C. "Girl in 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.