Exhibitions

First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting

Nov 22, 1932–Jan 5, 1933

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Artists

Jean Crawford Adams
1 exhibition
Dewey Albinson
1 exhibition
Ivan Le Lorraine Albright
5 works in the collection
Edmund Archer
3 works in the collection
Emil Armin
1 exhibition
George C. Ault
10 works in the collection
Jozef G. Bakos
1 work in the collection
Paul Bartlett
1 exhibition
A. S. Baylinson
5 exhibitions
Gifford R. Beal
10 works in the collection
Ben Benn
3 works in the collection
George Biddle
18 works in the collection
Isabel Bishop
76 works in the collection
Arnold Blanch
6 works in the collection
Lucile Blanch
15 works in the collection
Julius Bloch
13 works in the collection
Oscar Bluemner
17 works in the collection
Peter Blume
7 works in the collection
Adolphe Borie
5 works in the collection
Louis Bouché
6 works in the collection
Fiske Boyd
10 works in the collection
Alexander Brook
9 works in the collection
Edward Bruce
1 work in the collection
Henri Burkhard
2 works in the collection
David Burliuk
6 works in the collection
Bryson Burroughs
1 work in the collection
Jo Cain
1 exhibition
Blendon Campbell
10 works in the collection
Vincent Canade
3 works in the collection
John Carroll
3 works in the collection
Nicolai Cikovsky
1 work in the collection
Florence Ballin Cramer
2 exhibitions
Konrad Cramer
5 works in the collection
Francis Criss
3 works in the collection
John Cunning
1 work in the collection
John Steuart Curry
13 works in the collection
Andrew Dasburg
10 works in the collection
Stuart Davis
28 works in the collection
Charles Demuth
11 works in the collection
Nathaniel Dirk
2 works in the collection
Thomas Donnelly
6 works in the collection
Arthur Dove
8 works in the collection
Elsie Driggs
6 works in the collection
Guy Pène Du Bois
56 works in the collection
Charles Duncan
1 work in the collection
Stuart Edie
2 works in the collection
Louis M. Eilshemius
9 works in the collection
Stephen Etnier
4 exhibitions
Ernest Fiene
19 works in the collection
Frances Foy
1 exhibition
Kenneth Frasier
1 exhibition
Karl Free
11 works in the collection
Arnold Friedman
1 work in the collection
Emil Ganso
26 works in the collection
William Glackens
9 works in the collection
Anne Goldthwaite
3 works in the collection
Harry Gottlieb
6 works in the collection
John D. Graham
9 works in the collection
Davenport Griffen
1 exhibition
Bernard Gussow
3 works in the collection
Marsden Hartley
19 works in the collection
Bertram Hartman
3 works in the collection
Childe Hassam
5 works in the collection
Harry Hering
3 works in the collection
Eugene Higgins
31 works in the collection
Stefan Hirsch
6 works in the collection
Gerrit Hondius
1 work in the collection
Charles Hopkinson
3 exhibitions
Edward Hopper
3,168 works in the collection
Earl Horter
12 works in the collection
Isabella Howland
3 works in the collection
John Kane
2 works in the collection
Morris Kantor
14 works in the collection
Bernard Karfiol
9 works in the collection
Henry G. Keller
1 work in the collection
Georgina Klitgaard
5 works in the collection
Karl Knaths
7 works in the collection
Frederic Knight
3 exhibitions
Benjamin Kopman
13 works in the collection
Leon Kroll
4 works in the collection
Max Kuehne
20 works in the collection
Walt Kuhn
17 works in the collection
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
77 works in the collection
Richard Lahey
6 works in the collection
Edward Laning
6 works in the collection
Sidney Laufman
2 works in the collection
Ernest Lawson
3 works in the collection
Doris Lee
16 exhibitions
Hayley Lever
5 exhibitions
A. F. Levinson
2 exhibitions
Jonas Lie
1 exhibition
William H. Littlefield
2 exhibitions
John Ward Lockwood
5 works in the collection
Charles Logasa
2 exhibitions
Luigi Lucioni
13 works in the collection
Eugene Ludins
1 work in the collection
George Luks
10 works in the collection
Gus Mager
1 work in the collection
Peppino Gino Mangravite
6 works in the collection
Reginald Marsh
188 works in the collection
Henry Mattson
6 works in the collection
Jan Matulka
12 works in the collection
Henry Lee McFee
7 works in the collection
Austin Mecklem
2 works in the collection
Gari Melchers
1 exhibition
Kenneth Hayes Miller
135 works in the collection
Ross Moffett
2 works in the collection
David H. Morrison
1 work in the collection
Jerome Myers
11 works in the collection
Willard Nash
2 exhibitions
Georgia O'Keeffe
13 works in the collection
Otis Oldfield
1 exhibition
Sam Ostrowsky
1 exhibition
Walter Pach
5 works in the collection
Marjorie Phillips
1 work in the collection
George Picken
3 works in the collection
Salvatore Pinto
2 works in the collection
Theresa Pollak
1 exhibition
Joseph Pollet
4 works in the collection
Henry Varnum Poor
2 works in the collection
Edward Redfield
1 work in the collection
Paul Rohland
5 works in the collection
Umberto Romano
6 works in the collection
Charles Rosen
3 works in the collection
Theodore Roszak
39 works in the collection
W. Vladimir Rousseff
1 exhibition
Saul Schary
11 exhibitions
Katherine Schmidt
11 works in the collection
Henry Schnakenberg
12 works in the collection
Ben Shahn
13 works in the collection
Charles Sheeler
31 works in the collection
Anatol Shulkin
1 exhibition
John Sloan
164 works in the collection
Judson Smith
1 work in the collection
Raphael Soyer
51 works in the collection
Eugene Speicher
14 works in the collection
Francis Speight
3 exhibitions
Niles Spencer
6 works in the collection
Joseph Stella
21 works in the collection
Maurice Sterne
15 works in the collection
Florine Stettheimer
2 works in the collection
Chuzo Tamotzu
2 exhibitions
Bradley Walker Tomlin
6 works in the collection
Herman Trunk, Jr.
1 work in the collection
Allen Tucker
6 works in the collection
Carroll Tyson
2 exhibitions
Laura Van Pappelendam
1 exhibition
Dorothy Varian
6 works in the collection
Abraham Walkowitz
31 works in the collection
Nan Watson
7 works in the collection
Max Weber
14 works in the collection
Harold Weston
1 work in the collection
Warren Wheelock
1 work in the collection
Arnold Wiltz
6 works in the collection
Grant Wood
13 works in the collection
Stanley Wood
1 exhibition
Marguerite Zorach
9 works in the collection

Installation Photography

Several paintings hang on wall in a room with a fireplace

Installation view of First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933)

Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a hallway.

Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Theresa Pollak, Summac; Edward Lanning, Fourteenth Street; Bernard Karfiol, Miss B.N.; Arnold Blanche, Landscape. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho

Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a dining room.

Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Abraham Walkowitz, From My Window; Louis Bouche, Stamford Harbor; Max Weber, Interior With Still Life; Louis Eilshemius, Delaware Water Gap Village; A.S. Baylinson, Eternal Woman. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho

Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Harry Gottlieb, On the Balcony; Charles Logassa, Study for Pole Vaulter; Edward Bruce, San Luis Obispo; Jerome Meyers, Vaudville; Jean Crawford Adams, Plowing; Andrew Dasburg, Merganser. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho

Black-and-white photographs of paintings hanging in a gallery.

Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Anatol Shulkin, Kentucky Yarn; Florence Ballin-Chamer, Landscape; Henri Burkhard, Three Men; Sidney Laufman, Behind The Village; Richard Lahey, Carlotta in Rose Dress. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho

Black-and-white photograph of paintings hanging in a hallway at the top of stairs.

Installation view of the First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 1932–January 5, 1933). From left to right: Ernest Lawson, Baseball Park; Isabel Bishop, Combing Her Hair; John Cunning, Sunset—New York Bay; George Biddle, His First Crossing. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho

In the News

“. . . one thing that makes the Whitney biennial so peculiarly attractive is just the sense of inexhaustible surprise . . .” —The New York Times

“Above all else [. . .] the museum is to be congratulated on having assembled so broad a survey of painting in this country.” —The New York Times

“. . . a panorama of what is going on in American painting today.” —The American Magazine of Art

“. . . a catholic gathering of contemporary tendencies . . .” —The American Magazine of Art

“The representation in this exhibition is sectional, covering the country from the East Coast to the West and from the Canada border to Mexico [. . .] a general survey of American art of today will be given.” —Evening Star

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