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Painting in the United States: 1943-1949
Sunday June 29, 2008 - Sunday October 19, 2008
Organized by The Westmoreland, this exhibition reconstructs a sampling of the exhibitions of the same title organized by Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Museum of Art) from 1943 to 1949 and includes 48 paintings, of which 42 are the actual works that were selected for exhibitions over the seven-year period. These annual exhibitions of American painting replaced the Institute's annual Carnegie International while it was suspended due to World War II.
Support for this exhibition is provided by The Fine Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, The Henry L. Hillman Foundation, Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau, Richard King Mellon Foundation, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, Abbot W. Vose, Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc., and Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation.
About the design:
The original catalog cover featuring the stylized "US" with eagle and paintbrush was designed by Robert L. Lepper (1906-1991), a member of the fine arts faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) for 45 years.
A 1927 Carnegie Tech graduate, he initially designed the stylized red, white, and blue eagle for Directions in American Painting, the first of the exhibitions to replace the Carnegie International
during the war years. Lepper subsequently revised his design for the catalog cover of the first Painting in the United States exhibition held in 1943. With minor modifications, the cover design remained the same through the final exhibition in 1949.
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