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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture

26 July to 18 October 1940

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Artists

Raymond Breinin
American, 1910–2000
7 exhibitions
Edward Chavez
American, 1917–1995
2 exhibitions
Stuart Davis
American, 1892–1964
59 exhibitions
José De Creeft
American, born Spain. 1884–1982
5 exhibitions
Adolf Dehn
American, 1895–1968
17 exhibitions
Louis Dlugosz
American, 1916–2002
3 exhibitions
Arthur Dove
American, 1880–1946
33 exhibitions
Maurice Grosser
American, 1903–1986
3 exhibitions
Marsden Hartley
American, 1877–1943
29 exhibitions
Edward Hopper
American, 1882–1967
61 exhibitions
Gaston Lachaise
American, born France. 1882–1935
51 exhibitions
Abraham Rattner
American, 1893–1978
5 exhibitions
Byron Thomas
American, 1902–1978
4 exhibitions
Frede Vidar
American
3 exhibitions

New York Times Review of the exhibition

PUBLISHED

26 July 1940

MODERN MUSEUM ACQUIRES NEW ART; 13 Paintings and Sculptures by Contemporary Artists Go on Exhibition Today SOME OF THEM ARE GIFTS 8 Works Bought Through the Mrs. John D. Reckefeller Jr. Purchase Fund

Thirteen oil and water-color paintings and examples of sculpture by contemporary American artists have been acquired through gift and purchase by the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street.

New York Times • page 13 • 362 words