The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will sponsor an exhibit of paintings by modern American artists in their showrooms in the Cooperative Society Building, beginning on Monday and continuing until May 14.

In choosing pictures for the exhibit, an attempt has been made to show the more modern work of a group of interesting young American painters. Because of the present tendency toward individualism in American art circles, widely differing treatment of subject matter may be found in this exhibit. It takes one from the realism of Ganso's "Still Life with Peaches", to the abstraction of Stuart Davis' brilliantly colored "Drying Sails."

Perhaps the most important artists represented are Benjamin Karfiol, Morris Kantor, and Reginald Marsh. Karfiol has four pictures in the exhibit: "Picnic", "Torso", "Pine Island", and "The Yellow Drape." Two large canvases, "Staircase" and "Still Life with Glass Bottle" are the works of Morris Kantor, whose more recent pictures hint toward Victorian subjects treated in the Modern Manner. In the two temper paintings "Tenth Avenue" and "Locomotive Watering," Reginald Marsh has suppressed the brilliant coloring which formerly characterized his pieces.

Four exhibits are scheduled for next fall. These will be, "Stage Sets and Costume Design", "Soviet Art", "Paintings and Sculptures by Harvard Students", and Ben Shahn's "Pictorial Treatment of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case."