Louis Schanker

Atelier 17 group shows 1

1. 1946
   [Unknown title]

   American Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, California · [ca. February 10] to March 5, 1946

   Notes and sources

   The American Contemporary Gallery, opened in 1943 by Barbara Byrnes and Clara Grossman, was a small exhibition venue located on Hollywood Boulevard that mostly showed art and experimental films by European avant-gardes. For more, see Rani Singh, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980, ed. Rebecca Peabody, et al. (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), 7.

   About the exhibiting artists

   According to Arthur Millier's summary in the Los Angeles Times (February 10, 1946), this exhibition featured work by 13 studio members. No checklist exists but Arthur Millier's full review (February 17, 1946) mentions Stanley William Hayter and Louis Schanker. Millier also praises an unattributed print titled "Water Veiled." Ian Hugo is linked on that basis, since a print of that title is listed under his name in the 1946 Latin American checklist for MoMA's "Hayter and Studio 17" (1946-47).

   Sources

   For press coverage, see Arthur Millier, “Many Important Exhibits Opened Here This Week,” The Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1946, 54; Arthur Millier, “‘Fantastic’ Art Launched in Three-Point Exhibitions,” The Los Angeles Times, February 17, 1946, 44.