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Alexander Calder

♂  American, 1898–1976

Alexander Calder has been in 77 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1930 and 1989.

77 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans

3 December 1930 to 20 January 1931

Charles Sheeler, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition

19 November 1934 to 20 January 1935

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art

2 March to 19 April 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators

27 April to 2 September 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

7 December 1936 to 17 January 1937

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Centuries of American Art

24 May to 31 July 1938

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

10 May to 30 September 1939

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

23 October 1940 to 12 January 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition We Like Modern Art

27 December 1940 to 12 January 1941

Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture

10 March to 3 May 1941

Alexander Calder, Edward Hopper, William Zorach and Arshile Gorky, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

6 May to 30 April 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Animals in Art; Designing a Stage Setting

1–15 July 1941

Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Alexander Calder and Paul Gauguin, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Children's Festival of Modern Art

11 March to 10 May 1942

Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Jean (Hans) Arp and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 20th Century Sculpture and Constructions

2–26 October 1942

Pablo Picasso, Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Alexander Calder

29 September 1943 to 16 January 1944

Alexander Calder, Herbert Matter, Margaret Miller and James Johnson Sweeney were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Drawings

16 February to 10 May 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

24 May to 15 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Hayter and Studio 17: New Directions in Gravure

18 June to 8 October 1944

Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder and André Masson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

15 February to 18 March 1945

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

20 June 1945 to 13 February 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Children's Holiday Circus of Modern Art

4 December 1945 to 6 January 1946

Alexander Calder, Mario Carreño, Darrel Austin and Carl Walters, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Sculpture

19 February to 5 May 1946

Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and Constantin Brancusi, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

2 July 1946 to 12 September 1954

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Handmade Jewelry

17 September to 17 November 1946

Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Anni Albers and Harry Bertoia, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art

3 December 1946 to 5 January 1947

Alexander Calder, William Zorach, Victor D'Amico and Chaim Gross, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Timeless Aspects of Modern Art

16 November 1948 to 23 January 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

3 August to 2 October 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Art in Your Life

5 October to 4 December 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America

23 January to 25 March 1951

Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Posters by Painters and Sculptors

4 March to 11 May 1952

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Recent Acquisitions

6 May to 8 June 1952

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Rouault and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition International Sculpture Competition: The Unknown Political Prisoner

27 January to 8 February 1953

Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Herbert Ferber, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sculpture of the XXth Century

28 April to 7 September 1953

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean (Hans) Arp and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Selections from the Art Lending Service

5–24 October 1955

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Children's Holiday Carnival

10 December 1956 to 13 January 1957

Alexander Calder, Victor D'Amico and Toni Hughes were involved.

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Children's Holiday Carnival

9 December 1957 to 12 January 1958

Alexander Calder and Victor D'Amico were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Sculpture U.S.A.

13 May to 16 August 1959

Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Dorothy C. Miller and Larry Rivers, among others, were involved.

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Art Lending Service Retrospective

27 January to 20 March 1960

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Birds and Beasts from the Museum of Modern Art

3 December 1960 to 8 January 1961

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection

1 February to 4 March 1961

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Started 27 May 1964

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

16 February to 25 April 1965

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 44 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

6 September 1965 to 23 January 1966

Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Odilon Redon and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest

17 September to 14 December 1965

Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder and André Masson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collection

31 October 1966 to 8 May 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection

21 December 1966 to 5 March 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Calder: 19 Gifts from the Artist

1 February to 4 September 1967

Alexander Calder and Dorothy C. Miller were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

26 June to 22 November 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

28 June to 24 September 1967

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.

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Five Sculptures from the Museum Collection

8 January to 3 March 1968

Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Seymour Lipton and Arnaldo Pomodoro, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

27 March to 9 June 1968

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

28 May to 1 September 1969

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Salute to Alexander Calder

18 December 1969 to 15 February 1970

Alexander Calder, Bernice Rose and Wilder Green were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1877–1970: In Memoriam

25 February to 17 March 1970

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection

11 May to 19 October 1971

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, among others, were involved.

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American Prints from the International Program

3–8 November 1971

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions, 1968–1973

15 June to 25 September 1973

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France

13 June to 8 September 1974

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1913–1963

3 December 1974 to 3 March 1975

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Prints by Sculptors

21 May to 1 September 1975

Pablo Picasso, Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder and Alberto Giacometti, among others, were involved.

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A Museum Menagerie

9 December 1975 to 7 March 1976

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America

20 August to 14 November 1976

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Alexander Calder, 1898–1976

11 November to 7 December 1976

Alexander Calder was involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976

23 November 1976 to 20 February 1977

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Posters by Painters

21 January to 23 March 1977

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstraction-Création, Art Non-Figuratif

20 September to 4 December 1977

Jean (Hans) Arp, Vasily Kandinsky, Alexander Calder and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Thirty Sculptors' Drawings

18 May to 6 June 1979

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Movin'

6 December 1979 to 10 February 1980

Robert Rauschenberg, Odilon Redon, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Contemporary Works from the Collection

21 November 1985 to 1 April 1986

Joan Miró, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

18 December 1985 to 20 May 1986

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Alexander Calder and Jim Dine, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sculptors' Drawings

26 April to 2 September 1986

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jasper Johns and Jean (Hans) Arp, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Naked/Nude

29 May to 30 September 1986

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

6 August to 8 December 1987

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Master Prints from the Collection

20 November 1987 to 8 March 1988

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Abstractions

17 November 1988 to 26 March 1989

Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Jean (Hans) Arp, among others, were involved.