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Painters Jimmy Ernst, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Richard Pousette - Dart, Theodore Stamos, Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Willem de Kooning, Hedda Sterne, James Brooks, Weldon Kees, Fritz Bultman and sculptors Herbert Ferber, David Smith, Ibram Lassaw, Mary Callery, Day Schnabel, Seymour Lipton, Peter Grippe, Theodore Roszak, David Hare and Louise Bourgeois
signed this letter in
protest against the «monster national exhibition» at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The open letter,
signed by a few of the participants at the Artists» Session, and
protesting the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its anti-abstract bias in the selection of
painters for the exhibit American Painting Today 1950 is published in The New York Times.