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Contemporary American Paintings

Friday, May 18, 1951Sunday, June 10, 1951

Karl Knaths (American, 1891–1971). Number Zero - Adam, 1948. Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1951 (RCA1951:4).

This loan exhibition featured works by Willem de Kooning (American, born The Netherlands, 1904–1997), Arshile Gorky (American, born Armenia (now Turkey), 1904–1948), Philip Guston (American, born Canada, 1913–1980), Hans Hofmann (American, born Germany, 1880–1966), Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991), Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956), Richard Pousette-Dart (American, 1916–1992), and Theodoros Stamos (American, 1922–1997).