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Stuart Davis

♂  American, 1892–1964

Stuart worked at MoMA from about 1942 to 1943 as Competition Judge . He has been in 58 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1930 and 1989.

59 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 Murals by American Painters and Photographers

3–31 May 1932

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Painting and Sculpture, 1862–1932

31 October 1932 to 11 February 1933

Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, 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 Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan

4 June to 24 September 1935

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: The Collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

14 January to 16 February 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Horizons in American Art

14 September to 12 October 1936

Stuart Davis, Dorothy C. Miller, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and James Rosenquist, 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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New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture

26 July to 18 October 1940

Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Gaston Lachaise and Arthur Dove, 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 American Color Prints under $10

26 November to 28 December 1940

Stuart Davis, Adolf Dehn, Misch Kohn and Elizabeth Olds, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Acquisitions and Extended Loans: Cubist and Abstract Art

25 March to 3 May 1942

Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque and Juan Gris, among others, were involved.

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New Rugs by American Artists

30 June to 9 August 1942

Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Loren MacIver and E. McKnight Kauffer, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition National War Poster Competition

25 November 1942 to 3 January 1943

Stuart Davis, Monroe Wheeler, James Thrall Soby and John Taylor Arms, among others, were involved.

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Recent Acquisitions: European and American Paintings and Rugs

28 July to 26 September 1943

Giorgio de Chirico, Piet Mondrian, André Masson and Edward Hopper, 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 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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Photo of the exhibition Stuart Davis

17 October 1945 to 3 February 1946

Stuart Davis and James Johnson Sweeney were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Painting

19 February to 5 May 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, 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 Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture

24 September to 17 November 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ben Shahn and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

15 April to 1 June 1947

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

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Photo of the exhibition New York Private Collections

20 July to 12 September 1948

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Paintings from the Museum Collection

23 December 1948 to 13 March 1949

Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Master Prints from the Museum Collection

10 May to 10 July 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, 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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Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

6 December 1949 to 26 March 1950

Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Roberto Matta and William Zorach, 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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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 Works from the Museum Collection

12 August to 21 September 1952

Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque and Juan Gris, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions

11 February to 15 March 1953

Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Alberto Giacometti and Constantin Brancusi, among others, were involved.

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American Prints of the 20th Century

8 September to 28 November 1954

William S. Lieberman, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, 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 Recent American Acquisitions

14 March to 30 April 1957

Max Ernst, László Moholy-Nagy, Robert Motherwell and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 100 Drawings from the Museum Collection

11 October 1960 to 2 January 1961

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

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Photo of the exhibition America Seen: Between The Wars

25 April to 7 August 1961

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, George Grosz and John Marin, 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 John S. Newberry: A Memorial Exhibition

13 April to 14 July 1965

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Odilon Redon and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

6 April to 12 June 1966

André Derain, George Grosz, Stuart Davis and Roy Lichtenstein, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Manhattan Observed

22 March to 1 July 1968

William S. Lieberman, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

24 December 1969 to 1 March 1970

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

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Photo of the exhibition Ways of Looking

28 July to 1 November 1971

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, 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 Drawn in America

1 March to 29 May 1972

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, 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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Photo of the exhibition Stuart Davis

27 November 1975 to 28 April 1976

Stuart Davis was 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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New York/New York

11 September to 13 November 1978

Charles Sheeler, John Marin, Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, 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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Around Picasso

14 May to 30 September 1980

Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981

1–16 March 1982

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

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

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 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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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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Master Prints from the Collection

6 April to 8 August 1989

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

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The Cubist Imprint

18 August to 7 November 1989

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.