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Art Rental Service – 1953 Collection
Jan. 8–15, 1953
Contemporary Arts Museum
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Koch;
Contemporary Arts Association in conjunction with the Junior
League of Houston
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Modern Painting: Ways and Means
(William Baziotes, Jacob Lawrence, Yves Tanguy, and others)
Jan. 25–Feb. 15, 1953
Contemporary Arts Museum
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Preusser;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (essay; 4 pp.; 3 black & white illus.)
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Painting•Sculpture•Ceramics
by the Students and Faculty of the Texas Southern University
March 1–15, 1953
(Thomas Bates, John Biggers, Florence Brewer, Isaac Broman, Theodore
Brown, Mary Joyce Burleson, Alice Byrd, Archie Collman, Carolyn
Floyd, Adolphus Garret, Yvonne Hawthorne, Bobby Heliton, Fannie
Holman, John Hunstberry, Edmund Lane, Edgar Lang, Louis James
Le Blanc, Joseph L. Mack, Henry McCrane, Ruth McCrane, Sylvia
Narcisse, William Neely, Roy Paley, Justin Pecot, Poindexter,
Juanita Scott, Carroll H. Simms, Tony Spivey, Joyce Stevens,
Virginia Taylor, Bernard Walker, Abraham Benjamin Washington,
Athene Watson, Gilbert Weaver, and LaSalle Wright)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mears;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (introduction; checklist; 6 pp.)
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Children’s Paintings Inspired by Music
March 19–29, 1953
City Auditorium Lobby, Houston
Frank Dolejska;
Contemporary Arts Association
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The 31st Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial
Art
April 9–26, 1953
Contemporary Arts Museum
Art Director’s Club, New York
Catalogue (commentaries)
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Women in Art
May 7–24, 1953
(Ruth Adler, Kathleen Blackshear,
Betty Boone, Mary Callery, Mary Cassatt, Carlotta Corpron,
Doris Coulter, Margaret De
Patta, Marion Dorn, Sue Fuller, Geraldine Funk, Myra M. Grossman,
Eszter Harasyty, Edith Heath, Nora Herz, Lotte Jacobi, Mildred
Johnstone, Mariska Karasz, Juliet Kepes, Jane Kidder, Maria
Kipp, Florence Knoll, Nathalie Pervouchine Labrecque, Frances
Lewittes, Dorothy Liebes, Loren MacIver, Greta Magnusson,
Leza McVey, Annette Nancarron, Rosa Peña, Irene Rice
Pereira, Frances Pratt, Noemi Raymond, Zahara Schatz, Isabell
Scott, Hedda Sterne, Marianne Strengell, Martha Taipale,
Dorothea Tanning, D. D. Tillett, Mariann Von Allesch, Jo
Walker, June Wayne, Marguerite Wildenhain, Katherine Wilson,
and Beatrice Wood)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Norma Henderson;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (foreword; list of artists and lenders; 8 pp.)
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Art Rental Service – 1953 Collection
June 1953
Contemporary Arts Museum
Contemporary Arts Association
Brochure (introduction; checklist; 4 pp.)
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Jazz Prints
July 1953
Contemporary Arts Museum
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Creative Photography
August 1953
Contemporary Arts Museum
F. W. Seiders;
Contemporary Arts Association
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Mexican Painting and Drawing
Sept. 13–29, 1953
(Raúl Anguiano, Federico Cantú, Jean Charlot, Jesús
Reyes Ferreira, Jesús Guerrero Galván, María
Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, Manuel
Rodríquez Lozano, Ricardo Martínez, Carlos Mérida,
Guillermo Meza, Roberto Montenegro, Juan O’Gorman, José Clemente
Orozco, Diego Rivera, Carlos Orozco Romero, Antonio Ruiz, David
Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin,
Alfredo Zalce, and Francisco Zúniga)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Freed;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (foreword; checklist; 8 pp.; 3 black & white illus.)
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The Complexion of Interiors: An Interim of Color
and Light
Oct. 9–28, 1953
Contemporary Arts Museum
Herbert Wells;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (introduction and acknowledgments by Herbert Wells;
checklist; 13 pp.)
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Integration: The Use of Painting and
Sculpture with Architecture in Daily Life – A Survey
Exhibition of the Use of Art in the Environment of Architecture
for Emotional,
Religious, Commercial, Residential, and Other Ends
Nov. 8–Dec. 6, 1953
Contemporary Arts Museum
Frank Dolejska;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (foreword by Frank Dolejska; essays by Donald
Barthelme, John Biggers, Fred Conway, Eleanor Bitterman, Lee
H. B. Malone, Emil Frei, Marshall Fredericks, Frank Dolejska,
and Paul Lester Wiener; 36 pp.; 17 black & white illus.)
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Art Rental Service – 1954 Collection
Dec. 3–30, 1953
Contemporary Arts Museum
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Koch;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (checklist)
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