Abstract Art Exhibition: Japan and U.S.A.

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan
April 29–June 12, 1955

The exhibition was set in motion when AAA invited Hasegawa Saburo (1906–1957) to contribute works of Japanese abstract art to its 18th Annual Exhibition (1954, Riverside Museum, New York). Hasegawa founded the Japan Abstract Art Club to fulfill this request and Abstract Art Exhibition: Japan and U.S.A. was a response in kind, presenting works by forty-four AAA members in Japan..

AAA members included in the exhibition:

Josef Albers, Lewin Alcopley, Will Barnet, Maurice Berezov, Nell Blaine, Ilya Bolotowsky, Henry Botkin, Byron Browne, Georgio Cavalolon, Eve Clendenin, Robert Conover, Charlotte Cushman, Suzy Felinghuysen, Perle Fine, Ida Fischer, A. R. Fleicshmann, Luke Gwilliam, Fannie Hillsmith, Beate Hulbeck, Roger Jorgensen, Herbert Kallem, Harold Krisel, Eleanor de Laittre, Ibram Lassaw, Irving Lehman, Isreal Levitan, Michael Loew, Alice Trumbull Masson, George McNeil, Joseph Meierhans, Lily Michael, George L. K. Morris, Louise Nevelson, Stephen Pace, Easton Pribble, Hans Richter, John Sennhauser, Charles G. Shaw, Louis Silverstein, Esphyr Slobodkina, Hyde Solomon, Charmion von Weigand, John von Wicht, Jean Xceron

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Playback: Abstract Art Exhibition: Japan and U.S.A. (1955)

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan
April 16–August 25, 2024

Playback revisits Abstract Art Exhibition: Japan and U.S.A. held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) in 1955. In conjunction with the exhibition, MOMAT reprinted the 1955 catalogue along with a contemporary insert containing historical information and documentary materials.