"This exhibition has been designed to dramatize the contrast between American art in the 1930's and 1950's. The painters who represent the decade of the thirties are the majority of those who were at that time considered the leading progressive…
"The exhibition 'Paintings by Americam Masters' is presented as part of the Fifteenth Annual Fine Arts Festival at the State University of Iowa. The present exhibition presents several paintings by each of ... the [eleven] best painters in America…