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Picasso
Jan. 14–Feb. 20, 1955
Contemporary Arts Museum
Burdette Keeland, Jr.;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (checklist; 48 pp.)
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Product Design in America
March 5– April 3, 1955
Contemporary Arts Museum
Society of Industrial Designers for the Decima Triennele de Milano
with additions from Houston collections; sponsored by the Contemporary
Arts Association in conjunction with the Allied Arts Festival
Catalogue (essay by Mrs. William C. Buchanan; checklist; 12 pp.)
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Paintings Inspired by Music
March 15–23, 1955
Music Hall Lobby, Houston
Nell Willman;
Contemporary Arts Association
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Texas Architects’ Week
April 13–20, 1955
National Bank of Commerce Building, Houston
Contemporary Arts Association
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Ten American Collectors
April 17–May 15, 1955
(Collectors: Mr. W. G. Russell Allen,
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Gersten,
Miss Ima Hogg, Mr. Oliver B. Jennings, Mr. Harold Kaye, Dr. & Mrs.
Milton Lurie Kramer, Mr. & Mrs. Earle Ludgin, Mr. & Mrs.
Duncan Phillips, Mr. & Mrs. Albert F. Sperry, and Mr. & Mrs.
Watson Webb)
(Artists: Anonymous, Thomas Hart Benton, Eugene Berman, Harry
Bertoia, Isabel Bishop, Hyman Bloom, Paul Cadmus, Robert Cook,
Salvador Dali, Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning, Janet Doub, Arthur
G. Dove, Vaughn Flannery, Sue Fuller, Lee Gatch, Roland Ginzel,
Leon Golub, Morris Graves, Chaim Gross, Hans Hofmann, Helen Kramer,
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jack Levine, Martin Lewis, Jacques Lipchitz,
Jan Müller, Georgia O’Keeffe, Margorie Phillips, Ogden
Pleissner, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Kurt Seligman, Charles
Smith, Raphael Soyer, Vicci Sperry, Saul Steinberg, Pavel Tchelitchew,
Unknown, Alfred Urban, Max Weber, Abe Weiner, Rudolph Weisenborn,
Wistarberg Glass Works, Karl Zerbe, and William Zorach)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Mrs. G. Huckins Morris, Mrs. Robert D. Straus, Mrs. Maurice Lazarus,
Mrs. John Marshall, and Mrs. William Blair Meyer;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (essays; 28 pp.; 5 black & white illus.; checklist
under separate cover)
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American Jewelry and Related Objects
July 17–August 1955
Contemporary Arts Museum
Hickok Company, Rochester, New York, and Huntington Galleries,
Huntington, West Virginia
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Framing: Right and Wrong
Sept. 1–18, 1955
Contemporary Arts Museum
Mr. Irving Glass;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (checklist)
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Art Rental Service – 1956 Collection
Sept. 30–Oct. 16, 1955
Contemporary Arts Museum
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Marsters;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (introduction; checklist; 16 pp.)
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Contemporary European Tapestry
Oct. 28–Nov. 27, 1955
(Eve Anttila, Gina Berganini, Renata
Bonfanti, Michel Cadoret, E. Capogrossi, Geoffrey Clark, Charles
Crodel, Gordon Crook,
Ronald Cruikshank, Ann-Mari Forsberg, Cornelia Forster, Lissy
Funk, Irma Goecke, Fritz Griebel, Lars Gynning, Lidia Innocenti,
Elisabeth Kadow, Ida Kerkovius, Alli Koroma, Louis Le Brocquy,
Jean Lurçat, Edna Martin, Kaisa Melaton, Barbro Nilsson,
Mario Prassinos, Charles Pulsford, Antonello Rossi, Hannah
Ryggen, Greta Schodl, Ursula Schirmer, Johanna Shidlo, Martha
Taipale, Sofia Widen, Fritz Winter, and Karl Wollerman)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Leila McConnell;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (foreword by André Emmerich, Preston J. Frazier,
Jr., Leila McConnell, and Sara Meredith; essay by Irma Goecke;
checklist; 16 pp.; 6 black & white illus.)
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Large Scale Paintings I
Oct.–Nov. 1955
Music Hall, Houston
Jermayne MacAgy;
Contemporary Arts Association
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A Child’s World
Dec. 10, 1955–Jan. 1, 1956
Contemporary Arts Museum
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Geeslin;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (foreword by Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Geeslin; checklist;
12 pp.; 3 black & white illus.)
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