Skip to main content

Henri Rousseau

♂  French, 1844–1910

Henri Rousseau has been in 49 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1931 and 1985.

49 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Artist
Photo of the exhibition Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Lillie P. Bliss

17 May to 6 October 1931

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and André Derain, among others, were involved.

Artist
A Brief Survey of Modern Painting

20 July to 5 October 1932

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

Artist
Fruit and Flower Paintings

13–31 May 1933

Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture

10 July to 30 September 1933

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

Artist
Modern European Art

3–27 October 1933

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

Artist
Photo of the exhibition The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, 1934

14 May to 12 September 1934

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and André Derain, among others, were involved.

Artist
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.

Artist
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.

Artist
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.

Artist
Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan

20 July to 2 September 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

Artist
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.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan

23 June to 4 November 1937

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

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America

27 April to 24 July 1938

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller, Henri Rousseau and John Kane, among others, were involved.

Artist
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.

Artist
Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

12 January to 3 March 1940

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

Artist
Modern Masters from European and American Collections

26 January to 24 March 1940

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

Artist
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.

Artist
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.

Artist
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.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Modern Primitives: Artists of the People

21 October 1941 to 30 April 1944

Henri Rousseau, John Kane, Camille Bombois and Joseph Pickett, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Henri Rousseau

18 March to 3 May 1942

Henri Rousseau and Daniel Catton Rich were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Twentieth Century Portraits

9 December 1942 to 24 January 1943

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

Artist
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.

Artist
What is Modern Painting?

6–25 March 1945

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

Artist
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.

Artist
Museum of Modern Art Color Reproductions

28 November 1945 to 3 February 1946

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

Artist
The Museum Collection of Painting

19 February to 5 May 1946

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

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Designed for Children

11 June to 6 October 1946

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

Artist
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.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Paintings from New York Private Collections

2 July to 22 September 1946

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

Artist
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.

Artist
Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

29 August to 15 October 1950

Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Georges Rouault and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Selections from 5 New York Private Collections

26 June to 9 September 1951

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

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Masterworks Acquired through the Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

29 January to 23 March 1952

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

Artist
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.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Modern Masterprints of Europe

7 December 1954 to 1 February 1955

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

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Fifteen Paintings by French Masters of the 19th Century from the Louvre and the Museums of Albi and Lyon

25 February to 24 April 1955

Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, among others, were involved.

Artist
Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions

5 March to 24 April 1955

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

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Paintings from Private Collections

31 May to 7 September 1955

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

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

13 November 1957 to 5 January 1958

Paul Klee, Ben Shahn, Giorgio de Chirico and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.

Artist
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.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition The Artist as Adversary

1 July to 27 September 1971

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, among others, were involved.

Artist
Naive Painting: A Selection from the Museum Collection

7 January to 22 February 1972

Henri Rousseau, John Kane, Pierre Apraxine and Camille Bombois, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

18 October 1972 to 7 January 1973

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

Artist
Photo of the exhibition European Master Paintings from Swiss Collections: Post-Impressionism to World War II

17 December 1976 to 1 March 1977

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

Artist
Dream/Reality/Dream

26 September to 28 November 1977

Max Ernst, Odilon Redon, Jean Dubuffet and André Masson, among others, were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries

25 October 1980 to 27 January 1981

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

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Alfred H. Barr, Jr., 1902–1981

18 August to 21 October 1981

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Henri Rousseau were involved.

Artist
Photo of the exhibition Henri Rousseau

21 February to 4 June 1985

Henri Rousseau, William S. Rubin, Carolyn Lanchner and Michel Hoog were involved.