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The Family of Man
Jan. 28–Feb. 16, 1956
(The exhibition included work by 273 artists.)
Contemporary Arts Museum
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Catalogue
CAA Catalogue (essay by Fred Winchell; 4 pp.; 1 black & white
illus.)
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Shadow and Substance: The Shadow Theater of Montmartre and
Modern Art
March 3–April 1, 1956
(Caran d’Ache, Giacomo Balla, Betty Block and Charles Gaudin,
Pierre Bonnard, Jules Cheret, Stuart Davis, Edgar Degas, Maurice
Denis, Walt Disney Productions, Jean-Louis Forain, Paul Gauguin,
Margaret Hanna and Kiki Gray, Norma Henderson with Herbert Wells
and Leila McConnell, Jane and Sally Howard with Jim Love, Henri
Gabriel Ibels, Fernand Léger, Walter Lodge, Henri Matisse,
Norman McLaren, Georges Melies, Louis Morin, Marietta Lazo Moss
and Marjorie Lovberg, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Odilon Redon,
Lotte Reiniger, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Julie Rozan, Georges Seurat,
Ben Shahn, Robert Smith with Grace Cresswell, Theophile-Alexandre
Steinlen, Leopold Survage, Derrick Taylor, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
U. P. A. [United Productions of America], Félix Vallotton,
and Edouard Vuillard)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Ellen Sharp;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (foreword by William Rubin; essay
by Ellen Sharp; checklist; 30 pp.; 14 black & white illus.)
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Contemporary Calligraphers: John Marin, Mark
Tobey, Morris Graves
April 12–May 13, 1956
Contemporary Arts Museum
Loraine Gonzalez and Robert H. Wilson;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (foreword by Frederick S. Wight; checklist; biographies;
32 pp.; 11 black & white illus.)
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Contemporary German Graphics
May 24–June 17, 1956
(Karl Bianga, Johanne Blueschke, Kurt Bunge, Otto Eglau, Anneliese
Everts, Fritz Grasshoff, Urd Von Hentig, Gerhard Hintschich,
Gerhard Hoehme, Wolf Hoffmann, Herbert Kaufmann, Carl-Heinz
Kliemann, Gertrud Koehler, Ottokar Koeppen, Rudolf Kuegler,
Hans Metz, Hermann Ober, Charlotte Schmidt, Susanne Schoenberger,
Johanna Schuetz-Wolff, Willi Titze, Emil Wachter, Heinrich
Wilthelm, and Paul Wunderlich)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Frankische Galleries, Nurnberg, Germany
Catalogue (foreword by Henri V. Gadbois; checklist; 12 pp.; 6
black & white illus.)
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Modern Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India
Aug. 24–Sept. 16, 1956
Contemporary Arts Museum
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and All-India Handicraft
Board
Card (essay)
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Art Rental Service – 1957 Collection
Sept. 27–Oct. 21, 1956
(Sybil Allenson, Carma Anderson, Marbury
Brown, James Boynton, Vivian Buchanan, Lucie Cadigan, Lowell
Collins, Bill Condon,
Bene Conway, Carol Crow, Robin Curtis, Mildred Dixon, Margaret
Webb Dreyer, Nique Eberman, Frank Freed, Georgia Fruhling,
Marian Hettner Grunbaum, Lillian Clark Hamilton, Doris Harrop,
Hazel Hatfield, R. Hawkins, Sally and Jane Howard, Emily
Jane Japhet, Edith Kirk, Charlotte Kraft, Kay Kuntz, Charmin
Lanier, Leon Little, Jim Love, Paul Maxwell, Leila McConnell,
Eva McMurrey, Herbert Mears, Helen Momeike-Wisniewski, Gladys
Moses, Mary O’Hare, Mauno Oittinen, Norma R. Ory, David
G. Parsons, Anna Belle Peck, Martha Alexander Roche, Frances
Taylor Royston, Gwen G. Ryan, Alice Sayers, E. M. Schiwetz,
Pearl E. Sewell, George Shackelford, Victor Shifreen, Mary
Ellen Shipnes, Frances Skinner, Chester Snowden, Bonnie Wilder
Sparks, John D. Sparks, Stella Sullivan, V. J. Tate, D. J.
Taylor, Henry C. Thompson, Frances Thornton, Mary Lib Vick,
Marjorie von Rosenberg, and Jewel Denny Yarbrough)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (checklist; 10 pp.)
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Large Scale Paintings II
Oct. 30–Nov. 5, 1956
(William Baziotes, Max Ernst, Esteban Francis, Sam Francis, Arshile
Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Ad Reinhardt,
Theodore Stamos, and Bradley Walker Tomlin)
Music Hall, Houston
Jermayne MacAgy;
Contemporary Arts Association in conjunction with Houston Symphony
Orchestra and
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Catalogue (essay; checklist; 4 pp.)
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Let’s Face It: An Exhibition of Contemporary
Portraits
Nov. 8–Dec. 2, 1956
(Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Milton Avery, Max Beckmann, Hans
Belling, Bill Bomar, Alexander Brook, Bernard Buffet, Vincent
Canade, Bruno Cassinari, Emma Lu Davis, Charles Despiau, Otto
Dix, Katherine Dreier, Raoul Dufy, Lucien Freud, Robert Gwathmey,
Frida Kahlo, Leon Kroll, Julian Levi, Hal Lotterman, Marino Marini,
Marthe Rakine, Dickson Reeder, Carlos Orozco Romero, Georges
Rouault, Concetta Scaravaglione, Simkha Simkhovitch, David Alfaro
Siqueiros, Eugene Speicher, Tebo [Angel Torres Jaramillo], Bror
Utter, Cornelis Van Dongen, Franklin Watkins, and Andrew Wyeth)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Jermayne MacAgy;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (foreword; checklist; 12 pp.; 6 black & white illus.)
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Monumentality in Modern Sculpture
Dec. 13, 1956–Jan. 13, 1957
(Kenneth Armitage, Hans Arp, Ernst
Barlach, Wolfgang Behl, Mary Callery, Dorothy Dehner, Edgar
Degas, José de Rivera,
Max Ernst, Pericle Fazzini, Alberto Giacometti, Joseph Glasco,
Julio González, Paul Grunland, Adaline Kent, Jacques
Lipchitz, Man Ray, Marguerite, Ezio Martinelli, Henri Matisse,
Mirko, Henry Moore, L. E. J. Rhodes, Auguste Rodin, David
Smith, Jack Squire, Emmanuel Viviano, and a selection of
African [Belgian Congo, Eastern Congo, French Sudan, Gold
Coast], American Indian [Eskimo, Zuni, Northwest Coast],
Boetian, Chinese, Etruscan, Greek, New Guinea, New Zealand,
Persian, Philippine,
Pre-Columbian, Seljuk, and South Central European works of art)
Contemporary Arts Museum
Jermayne MacAgy and John M. Steel;
Contemporary Arts Association
Catalogue (introduction by John M. Steel; essay by Douglas MacAgy;
checklist; 32 pp.; 12 black & white illus.)
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