The nucleus of this annual exhibition is a collection of about 40 paintings by a group of 12 of the leading American painters of today: Gifford Beal, George Bellows, William M. Chase, Paul Dougherty, W.J. Glackens, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Hayley Lever, W. Elmer Schofield, Gardner Symons, and J. Alden Weir. Also exhibiting were Mary Cassatt, William Forsyth and T.C. Steele.