Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. Saint Rémy, June 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 × 36 1/4″ (73.7 × 92.1 cm). Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest

Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s

Name: Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s
Start: 2004-11-20
End: 2019-06-15
Location: The Museum of Modern Art

Through June 15 The Museum of Modern Art

Exhibition

The Museum of Modern Art, Floor 5

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The works displayed on this floor roughly span the years 1880 to 1950. Within an overall chronological flow, galleries highlight individual stylistic movements, artists, and themes, including Cubism, the work of Henri Matisse, and Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, among other subjects. These galleries are frequently reinstalled in an effort to feature a wide range of artworks in various configurations, reflecting the view that there are countless ways to explore the history of modern art and the Museum’s rich collection.

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Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s

Events

Mornings at MoMA

Evenings at MoMA

Member Gallery Talk: Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s

Member After Hours: Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s

Member Gallery Talk: Collection Galleries: 1880s–1950s

Member After Hours: Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s, Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done

Member After Hours: Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams, Constantin Brancusi Sculpture, Masterworks of the Collection (Collection Galleries 1880s-1950s)

Member After Hours: Being: New Photography 2018, Brancusi Sculpture, Masterworks of the Collection, Peter Fischli,“If Everything Is Sculpture Why Make Sculpture?”

Evening Classes: Monet, Cézanne, and the Advent of Modernism

Daytime Classes: Monet, Cézanne, and the Advent of Modernism

Member After Hours: Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund, Adrian Piper, Masterworks of the Collection, Peter Fischli,“If Everything Is Sculpture Why Make Sculpture?”

Quiet Mornings

Daytime Classes: The Truth behind Artists’ Words

Mother's Day at MoMA

Evening Classes: Drips, Smears, and Spots: Radical Innovations in 20th-Century Painting

Daytime Classes: What Is Modern Art?

Member Gallery Talk: Collection Galleries: 1880s-1950s

Member After Hours: Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund, Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965–2016, Collection Galleries: 1880s-1950s

Evening Classes: What Is Modern Art?

Evening Classes: Color by Number: A Prismatic View of Modern Art

Daytime Classes: Becoming Modern: Art before Jackson Pollock

Daytime Classes: Color by Number: A Prismatic View of Modern Art

Evening Classes: The Modern Studio: Pop Art

Member After Hours: Stephen Shore, The Long Run, Collection Galleries: 1880s-1950s

Valentine Tours

Member After Hours: Items: Is Fashion Modern?, Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s

The Modern Studio: New Directions in New York Painting

Seen and Unseen

Member After Hours: Items: Is Fashion Modern?, Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s, Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait

Member After Hours: Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s

Member Gallery Talk: Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s

Postwar Art and Its Modern Roots

The Museum in Pieces: A Study of Lesser-Known Things

Member After Hours: Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection

Member After Hours: Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde

Valentine Tours

Evening Tour: Chinese New Year

Evening Tour: Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh

Evening Tour: The Modern Palette

Evening Tour: Abstraction and Surrealism

Evening Tour: Robert Rauschenberg and His Peers

Evening Tour: Exploring Dada and Futurism

Evening Tour: Holiday Highlights

Member After Hours: Items: Is Fashion Modern?, Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s, Louise
Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait

Member After Hours:
Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s
Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection

Member After Hours:
Collection Galleries 1880s–1950s
One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers
A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde