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Charles Eames

♂  American, 1907–1978

Charles worked at MoMA from about 1950 to 1951 as Designer . He has been in 24 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1944 and 1978.

25 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Design for Use

24 May to 22 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian and Constantin Brancusi, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage

21 February to 13 May 1945

Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Edward Durell Stone and Richard Neutra, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Furniture Designed by Charles Eames

12 March to 14 April 1946

Charles Eames was involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Rooms of the Last Fifty Years

26 November 1946 to 26 January 1947

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 100 Useful Objects of Fine Design (available under $100)

16 September 1947 to 25 January 1948

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles Eames, Alvar Aalto and Corning Glass Works, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The House in the Museum Garden

12 April to 30 October 1949

Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen and Knoll Associates, New York, NY, 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 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.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Modern Styles

11 July to 5 September 1950

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, 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 Good Design

21 November 1950 to 28 January 1951

Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto and Edward Durell Stone, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Good Design

21 November 1950 to 28 January 1951

Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto and Edward Durell Stone, 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 Good Design

27 November 1951 to 27 January 1952

Philip Johnson, Saul Steinberg, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Good Design

23 September to 30 November 1952

Charles Eames, Edward Durell Stone, Knoll Associates, New York, NY and Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition De Stijl

16 December 1952 to 15 February 1953

Piet Mondrian, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Josef Albers, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

20 January to 15 March 1953

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Good Design

22 September to 29 November 1953

Charles Eames, Corning Glass Works, Knoll Associates, New York, NY and Herman Miller Furniture Co., Zeeland, MI, among others, were involved.

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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.

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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 20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

17 December 1958 to 23 February 1959

Arthur Drexler, Man Ray, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 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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Photo of the exhibition Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design

Started 27 May 1964

Henri Matisse, Arthur Drexler, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, among others, were involved.

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Charles Eames Furniture from the Design Collection

16 April to 1 August 1973

Arthur Drexler, Charles Eames and Mary Jane Lightbrown were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Charles Eames, 1907–1978

31 August to 6 November 1978

Charles Eames and J. Stewart Johnson were involved.