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Janis, Sidney, Introduction. San Francisco, CA: The San Francisco Museum of Art, 1944. First Edition. 12mo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine.. 36pp, 10 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with the landmark 1944 touring Museum survey of contemporary Surrealism and Abstraction by both American artists and European wartime expatriates organized by The San Francisco Museum of Art. It features a brief introductory essay by Sidney Janis, and the artists included are Arthur B. Carles, Charles Demuth, Lyonel Feininger, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, John Marin, Alfred Maurer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Abraham Walkowitz, Max Weber, Joseph Albers, Byron Browne, Alexander Calder, Mercedes Carles, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, William de Kooning, Ray Eames, John Ferren, Adolph Gottlieb, John D. Graham, Balcomb Greene, Jean Helion, Hans Hofmann, Carl Robert Holty, Charles Howard, Gyorgy Kepes, Karl Knaths, Lee Krasner, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Molzahn, I. Rice Pereira, C.S. Price, Abraham Rattner, Ad Reinhardt, Kurt Roesch, Mark Rothko, Max Schnitzler, Vaclav Vytlacil, Robert Jay Wolff, Herbert Bayer, William Baziotes, Peter Blume, Joseph Cornell, Francesco Cristofanetti, Jimmy Ernst, Lee Gatch, Arshile Gorky, Morris Graves, O. Louis Guglielmi, Hananiah Harari, Dan Harris, Stanley William Hayter, Fannie Hillsmith, Gerome Kamrowski, Leon Kelly, Gina Knee, Loren MacIver, Boris Margo, Evsa Model, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Walter Quirt, Andre Racz, Ralph Rosenborg, Janet Sobel, Dorothea Tanning, Mark Tobey, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jacqueline Breton Lamba, Fernand Leger, Jacques Lipchitz, Andre Masson, Matta (Roberto Sebastian Matta Echaurren), Piet Mondrian, Amedee Ozenfant, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Ossip Zadkine. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 023011