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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

Installation of Painting and Sculpture Department

6–24 June 1985

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Artists

Nicholas Africano
American, born 1948
5 exhibitions
Gregory Amenoff
American, born 1948
9 exhibitions
Alan Cote
American, born 1937
5 exhibitions
Hamish Fulton
British, born 1946
5 exhibitions
Nancy Graves
American, 1940–1995
10 exhibitions
David Hockney
British, born 1937
40 exhibitions
Howard Hodgkin
British, born 1932
10 exhibitions
Neil Jenney
American, born 1945
9 exhibitions
Alex Katz
American, born 1927
26 exhibitions
Brice Marden
American, born 1938
21 exhibitions
Susan Rothenberg
American, born 1945
21 exhibitions
Pat Steir
American, born 1940
18 exhibitions
Terry Winters
American, born 1949
10 exhibitions

New York Times Review of the exhibition

PUBLISHED

10 May 1985

ART: A SHOW OF WORKS GIVEN BY PHILIP JOHNSON

By John RUSSELL

''PHILIP JOHNSON: Selected Gifts'' at the Museum of Modern Art is a fascinating and, on at least one count, a provocative affair. It consists of 40 paintings and sculptures by 31 artists, all given to the museum by Mr. Johnson since 1942. The roster of artists includes some - Jasper Johns, Frank Stella and Neil Jenney among them - of whom Mr. Johnson has been a longtime champion. But it also includes many to whom he is not known to have a strong private commitment - Yves Klein, for instance, and Arman, Lucas Samaras, Jim Dine, Agnes Martin, Tom Wesselmann and others. A close look at the checklist will also reveal to what an extent the donor made sure that the Modern Museum got good paintings by the Abstract Expressionists at a time when not everyone thought of them as indispensable. There was work to be done for Mark Rothko and Bradley Walker Tomlin in 1952, Philip Guston in 1956, Adolph Gottlieb in 1958 and Barnett Newman in 1959, and Philip Johnson went ahead and did it.

New York Times • Arts • page 24 • 1,423 words