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Andrew Carnduff Ritchie

♂  American, born Scotland, 1907–1978

Andrew worked at MoMA from about 1950 to 1957 as Curator, Preparer, Arranger, Installer and Competition Judge , and he was head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1949–1957 .

24 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Curator
Photo of the exhibition Charles Demuth

7 March to 11 June 1950

Charles Demuth and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Franklin Watkins

21 March to 11 June 1950

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Franklin Chenault Watkins were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse: Drumlevitch, King, Parker

28 April to 7 June 1950

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, William D. King, Raymond Parker and Seymour Drumlevitch were involved.

Curator
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.

Arranger
Photo of the exhibition Lebrun: Crucifixion

27 February to 15 April 1951

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Rico Lebrun were involved.

Curator
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.

Curator
Lipchitz's Birth of the Muses

18 July to 19 August 1951

Jacques Lipchitz, Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, William Vandivert and Carlus Dyer were involved.

Preparer
Photo of the exhibition French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection

24 June to 7 September 1952

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

Installer
Photo of the exhibition Les Fauves

7 October 1952 to 4 January 1953

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

Competition Judge
Photo of the exhibition International Sculpture Competition: The Unknown Political Prisoner

27 January to 8 February 1953

Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Herbert Ferber, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Edward G. Robinson Collection

3 March to 12 April 1953

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

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Sculpture of the XXth Century

28 April to 7 September 1953

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean (Hans) Arp and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse: Monroe, Schwartz, Sowers

17 November 1953 to 31 January 1954

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Keith Monroe, Ira Schwartz and Robert Sowers were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Vuillard

6 April to 6 June 1954

Édouard Vuillard and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie were involved.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz

18 May to 1 August 1954

Jacques Lipchitz, Andrew Carnduff Ritchie and Henry R. Hope were involved.

Curator
Benrimo, Townley, Tyler: New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse

19 April to 22 May 1955

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Richard O. Tyler, Tom Benrimo and Hugh Townley were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition The New Decade: 22 European Painters and Sculptors

10 May to 7 August 1955

Jean Dubuffet, Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Reg Butler and Francis Bacon, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Craig, Fornas, Speyer: New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse

6 December 1955 to 22 January 1956

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Leander Fornas, Martin Craig and Nora Speyer were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Julio González

8 February to 8 April 1956

Julio González and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec

21 March to 6 May 1956

William S. Lieberman, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Clerk, Hadzi, Kabak: New Talent Exhibition in the Penthouse

1 May to 10 June 1956

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Dimitri Hadzi, Pierre Clerk and Robert Kabak were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Masters of British Painting, 1800–1950

3 October to 2 December 1956

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Ben Nicholson, Francis Bacon and Stanley Spencer, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Cohen, Kohn, Schapiro: New Talent in the Penthouse

9 April to 12 May 1957

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Gabriel Kohn, Sam Hunter and George Cohen, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition German Art of the 20th Century

2 October to 1 December 1957

Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.