"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 works in the exhibition divide into two esthetic categories: 1) those which achieve visual unity through a balance of stable shapes and 2) those which achieve visual unity through an ultimate equilibrium of shifting effects"--P. 5; "The works of…