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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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