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Installation view of the exhibition "Art of the Forties"
February 20, 1991–April 30, 1991. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. IN1574.12. Photograph by Mali Olatunji.
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Works identified
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
IIT Library and Administration Building, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective for southeast corner
c. 1944-45
Charles Eames, Ray Eames
Eames House, Los Angeles, California
1949
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
1945–1951
Charles Eames, Ray Eames
Side Chair (model DCM) (Exhibited in the US Pavilion in the 1951 Milan Triennale)
1946
Isamu Noguchi
Table
c. 1941
Frederick Kiesler
Multi-use Chair
1942
Frederick Kiesler
Multi-use Rocker Prototype
1942
Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan, Jorge Ferrari Hardoy
B.K.F. chair
1938
Lester Beall
Cross Out Slums
1941
Joan Miró
The Escape Ladder
(from the
Constellation
series)
1940
A. E. Gallatin
Forms and Red
December 1949
Fernand Léger
Big Julie
1945
Henry Moore
The Bride
1939-40
Alexander Calder
Constellation with Red Object
Roxbury, Connecticut, 1943