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René d'Harnoncourt

♂  American, 1901–1968

René worked at MoMA from about 1941 to 1968 as Curator, Designer, Installer and Competition Judge , and he was head of The Museum of Modern Art from 1949–1968 .

24 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Installer
Photo of the exhibition Indian Art of the United States

22 January to 27 April 1941

René d'Harnoncourt, Heinrich Klumb, John Wallace and Frederic H. Douglas were involved.

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition United Hemisphere Poster Competition

21 October to 24 November 1942

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Monroe Wheeler, René d'Harnoncourt and Eliot Noyes, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Arts of the South Seas

29 January to 19 May 1946

René d'Harnoncourt, Ralph Linton and Paul S. Wingert were involved.

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition Printed Textiles for the Home

12 March to 15 June 1947

Marcel Breuer, René d'Harnoncourt, Eero Saarinen and Alexander Girard, among others, were involved.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner

10 February to 25 April 1948

Naum Gabo, René d'Harnoncourt and Antoine Pevsner were involved.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition Elie Nadelman

5 October to 28 November 1948

Elie Nadelman, René d'Harnoncourt and Lincoln Kirstein were involved.

Curator
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.

Designer
Photo of the exhibition The Exact Instant

8 February to 1 May 1949

Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, René d'Harnoncourt and W. Eugene Smith, among others, were involved.

Designer
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.

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition Prize Designs for Modern Furniture

16 May to 16 July 1950

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames and René d'Harnoncourt, among others, were involved.

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition New Lamps

27 March to 3 June 1951

Giorgio de Chirico, Max Beckmann, Charles Burchfield and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Ancient Arts of the Andes

25 January to 21 March 1954

René d'Harnoncourt was involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Good Design: 5th Anniversary

8 February to 20 March 1955

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Philip Johnson, Charles Eames and René d'Harnoncourt, among others, were involved.

Curator
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.

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition Textiles U.S.A.

29 August to 4 November 1956

Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Arthur Drexler and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition Seurat Paintings and Drawings

24 March to 11 May 1958

Georges-Pierre Seurat, René d'Harnoncourt and Daniel Catton Rich were involved.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition Jean Arp: A Retrospective

8 October to 30 November 1958

Jean (Hans) Arp, René d'Harnoncourt and James Thrall Soby were involved.

Installer
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.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition New Images of Man

30 September to 29 November 1959

Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, among others, were involved.

Curator
Fifty Modern Paintings and Sculpture Especially Donated for the Benefit of the 30th Anniversary Fund of The Museum of Modern Art

Started 20 April 1960

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

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Steichen the Photographer

28 March to 30 May 1961

Edward Steichen and René d'Harnoncourt were involved.

Designer
Photo of the exhibition Chagall: The Jerusalem Windows

19 November 1961 to 3 January 1962

Marc Chagall, René d'Harnoncourt and Peter Selz were involved.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center

Started 27 May 1964

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

Installer
Photo of the exhibition The Sculpture of Picasso

11 October 1967 to 1 January 1968

Pablo Picasso, René d'Harnoncourt and Roland Penrose were involved.