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Frederick Sommer

♂  American, born Italy. 1905–1999

Frederick Sommer has been in 21 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1941 and 1982.

21 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Image of Freedom

29 October 1941 to 1 February 1942

Charles Sheeler, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ansel Adams and Monroe Wheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Photographers

18 June to 15 September 1946

Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, William Zorach and Harry Callahan, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Realism in Photography

26 July to 25 September 1949

Edward Steichen, Frederick Sommer, Ralph Steiner and Wayne Miller, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs by 51 Photographers

1 August to 17 September 1950

Harry Callahan, Irving Penn, Robert Frank and Charles Eames, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstraction in Photography

1 May to 4 July 1951

Edward Steichen, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Christmas Photographs

29 November 1951 to 6 January 1952

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Diogenes with a Camera

20 May to 1 September 1952

Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan and W. Eugene Smith, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs from the Museum Collection

26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

18–29 November 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

21 December 1960 to 5 February 1961

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

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

3 April to 15 May 1962

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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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.

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Recent Acquisitions: Photography

6 October 1965 to 9 January 1966

Lee Friedlander, Frederick Sommer, Garry Winogrand and Andreas Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

Started 25 October 1967

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Portrait Photographs

9 July to 28 September 1969

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Collage and the Photo-Image

11 July to 11 September 1973

Joan Miró, Jasper Johns, Max Ernst and Edward Steichen, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Picture Puzzles

12 August to 16 November 1975

Man Ray, Frederick Sommer, Robert Cumming and Peter Galassi, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

Started 21 December 1979

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Reinstallation of the Collection

Started 23 October 1980

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Landscapes

9 July to 4 October 1981

Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Still Life

8 October 1981 to 3 January 1982

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