Fifty Contemporary American Artists: Opening Exhibition

This is an about very good hardcover copy in dark blue cloth boards with title in gilt on the front cover. Very clean inside and out. Top right corners of boards worn. Internally very clean, some handling of the pages, not crisp. This was the first catalog published by the Greenwich Gallery located in Greenwich Village, on 71 Washington Place, in the area around New York University, which itself surrounds Washington Square Park. The exhibition featured paintings and sculpture by 50 American contemporary artists. Many of them immigrants from Russia or Eastern Europe, many Jewish. The gallery intended to show American modern, but representational or figurative art. They included: Milton Avery, Saul Baizerman, Isabel Bishop, Byron Browne, Charles Burchfield, David Burliuk, Doris Caesar, Jose de Creeft, Philip Evergood, William Gropper, Chaim Gross, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Leon Kroll, Jack Levine, Jacques Lipchitz, Georgia O'Keefe, Henry Varnum Poor, Larry Rivers, Ben Shahn, the Soyer brothers Raphael, Isaac and Moses, Abraham Walkowitz, Max Weber, Andrew Wyeth and William Zorach, among many others. Each artist gets two pages: one biographical information and a black & white illustration. Essay by A.L. Chanin. 10" high X 7" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.