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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

1942: 48 exhibitions

William Zorach, Diego Rivera, Alfred Stieglitz and Jules Pascin were exhibited most in 1942.

Photo of the exhibition New Acquisitions: Latin-American Art

13 January to 15 February 1942

José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Wifredo Lam, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition New Acquisitions: Photographs

13 January to 25 February 1942

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

Photo of the exhibition Dancers in Movement: Photographs by Gjon Mili

13 January to 9 April 1942

Gjon Mili and Paul Magriel were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States

21 January to 8 March 1942

Dorothy C. Miller, Morris Graves, Jack Levine and Rico Lebrun, among others, were involved.

The Artists' New York

28 January to 2 March 1942

Ben Shahn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

U.S. Army Illustrators of Fort Custer, Michigan

4 February to 10 March 1942

Monroe Wheeler, Wallace Brodeur, Chet Engle and Henry Fortuna, among others, were involved.

New Acquisitions: American Drawings

18 February to 5 April 1942

Charles Sheeler, William Zorach, Jules Pascin and Eugene Berman, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Photographs of the Civil War and the American Frontier

3 March to 5 April 1942

Ansel Adams, Mathew B. Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Children's Festival of Modern Art

11 March to 10 May 1942

Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Jean (Hans) Arp and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.

Art in War: OEM Purchases from a National Competition

13–25 March 1942

Elizabeth Olds, Carl Walters, Charles Coiner and Holger Cahill, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Henri Rousseau

18 March to 3 May 1942

Henri Rousseau and Daniel Catton Rich were involved.

Photo of the exhibition New Acquisitions and Extended Loans: Cubist and Abstract Art

25 March to 3 May 1942

Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque and Juan Gris, among others, were involved.

Two Years of War in England: Photographs by William Vandivert

15 April to 10 June 1942

William Vandivert was involved.

Photo of the exhibition Wartime Housing

22 April to 21 June 1942

Eliot Noyes, Alice M. Carson and Don Hatch were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Art Sale for the Armed Services

6 May to 16 June 1942

Anti-Hoarding Pictures by New York School Children

13 May to 8 June 1942

Mexican Costumes by Carlos Mérida

13–24 May 1942

Carlos Mérida was involved.

Photo of the exhibition Road to Victory

21 May to 4 October 1942

Edward Steichen, Herbert Bayer, Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein, among others, were involved.

Paintings from the Class for Members' Children

25–31 May 1942

Understanding Modern Art

2 June to 9 July 1942

Josephine Joy: Romantic Painter

12 June to 7 October 1942

Josephine Joy was involved.

New Acquisitions: Free German Art

24 June to 24 August 1942

Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz were involved.

Salvage Posters by New York High School Students

24 June to 3 September 1942

New Rugs by American Artists

30 June to 9 August 1942

Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Loren MacIver and E. McKnight Kauffer, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Bambi: The Making of an Animated Sound Picture

15 July to 20 August 1942

Iris Barry and Walt Disney Productions were involved.

Camouflage for Civilian Defense

12 August to 13 September 1942

Saul Steinberg and Carlus Dyer were involved.

Planning a Modern House

25 August to 21 September 1942

New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture

26 August to 27 September 1942

Lyonel Feininger, Max Weber, William Zorach and Jules Pascin, among others, were involved.

New Posters from England

4 September to 18 October 1942

Abram Games, Jan Lewitt, Frederick H. K. Henrion and Herbert Tomlinson, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Modern Architecture for the Modern School

16–30 September 1942

Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, William Lescaze and Elizabeth Mock, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition How to make a Photogram

16 September to 2 November 1942

Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, György Kepes and N.B. Lerner, among others, were involved.

How Modern Artists Paint People

22 September to 13 October 1942

Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas and Georges-Pierre Seurat, among others, were involved.

Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

30 September to 10 December 1942

André Derain, Amedeo Modigliani, Jacques Lipchitz and Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition The Americas Cooperate

30 September to 18 October 1942

Photo of the exhibition 20th Century Sculpture and Constructions

2–26 October 1942

Pablo Picasso, Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

Art of Two Cities: Chicago and New York

14 October to 15 November 1942

Virginia Murphy and Elizabeth Wells Robertson were involved.

Photo of the exhibition United Hemisphere Poster Competition

21 October to 24 November 1942

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Monroe Wheeler, René d'Harnoncourt and Eliot Noyes, among others, were involved.

The Museum and the War

23 October 1942 to 22 January 1943

Photo of the exhibition Tchelitchew: Paintings and Drawings

28 October to 29 November 1942

Pavel Tchelitchew and James Thrall Soby were involved.

Photo of the exhibition The Sculpture of John B. Flannagan

28 October to 29 November 1942

Dorothy C. Miller and John Bernard Flannagan were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Art from Fighting China

11–27 November 1942

Chang Shih Min, Chang Shuhong, Chang Wen-Yuan and Chen Xiaonan, among others, were involved.

Children's Painting and the War

18 November to 13 December 1942

Photo of the exhibition National War Poster Competition

25 November 1942 to 3 January 1943

Stuart Davis, Monroe Wheeler, James Thrall Soby and John Taylor Arms, among others, were involved.

Useful Objects in Wartime under $10

2 December 1942 to 9 January 1943

Corning Glass Works, Russel Wright, Blenko Glass Co., Inc., Milton, WV and Nathan George Horwitt, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Twentieth Century Portraits

9 December 1942 to 24 January 1943

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

New Acquisitions: Photography by Alfred Stieglitz, European and American Art

16 December 1942 to 28 February 1943

Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Giorgio de Chirico and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.

Children's Festival of Modern Art

16 December 1942 to 17 January 1943

Marc Chagall was involved.

Photo of the exhibition Joe Milone's Shoe Shine Stand

22 December 1942 to 10 January 1943

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Giovanni Indelicato were involved.

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