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Lucas Samaras

♂  American, born Greece 1936

Lucas Samaras has been in 26 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1961 and 1987.

26 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition The Art of Assemblage

4 October to 12 November 1961

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Lettering by Hand

6 November 1962 to 6 January 1963

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

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

20 November 1962 to 13 January 1963

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

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Photo of the exhibition The Object Transformed

29 June to 5 September 1966

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Arthur Drexler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 20 Drawings: New Acquisitions

2 August to 2 October 1966

Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Alberto Giacometti and Otto Dix, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collection

31 October 1966 to 8 May 1967

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

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

26 June to 22 November 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

28 June to 24 September 1967

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

27 March to 9 June 1968

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Lucas Samaras: Book

4 August to 10 September 1969

Riva Castleman and Lucas Samaras were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection

11 May to 19 October 1971

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ways of Looking

28 July to 1 November 1971

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

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits

27 December 1973 to 24 February 1974

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn

10 May to 11 August 1974

Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Marcel Duchamp, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Lucas Samaras 1974

3 March to 13 April 1975

Bernice Rose and Lucas Samaras were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Drawn and Matched

20 September to 4 December 1977

William S. Lieberman, Jim Dine, Robert Morris and Tom Wesselmann, among others, were involved.

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Dream/Reality/Dream

26 September to 28 November 1977

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

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Photo of the exhibition Artists and Writers

10 July to 3 October 1978

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960

26 July to 2 October 1978

Robert Rauschenberg, John Szarkowski, Andy Warhol and Sol LeWitt, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Words and Pictures

20 August to 6 October 1981

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, 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.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Started 17 May 1984

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

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Photo of the exhibition Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions

18 August to 6 November 1984

Lucas Samaras, William Eggleston, Jan Groover and Peter Galassi, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985

7 November 1985 to 7 January 1986

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

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Photo of the exhibition Contemporary Works from the Collection

21 November 1985 to 1 April 1986

Joan Miró, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawing since 1940

25 June to 13 October 1987

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