Exhibition history

Preston Dickinson. Harlem River. before 1928. Oil on canvas, 16 1/8 x 20 1/4" (41 x 51.4 cm). Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

509: New York City, 1920s

Ongoing

MoMA

Collection gallery

Joaquín Torres-García. Composition. 1931. Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 24" (91.7 x 61 cm), Gift of Larry Aldrich. Photo: Thomas Griesel

512: Circle and Square, Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Piet Mondrian

Ongoing

MoMA

Collection gallery

Jesús Rafael Soto (Venezuelan, 1923–2005). Doble transparencia (Double Transparency) (detail). 1956. Oil on plexiglass and wood with metal rods and bolts, 21 5/8 × 21 5/8 × 12 5/8″ (55 × 55 × 32 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Ana Teresa Arismendi. © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift

Oct 21, 2019–Sep 12, 2020

MoMA

Walker Evans. Lincoln Kirstein. c. 1931. Gelatin silver print, 6 3/8 x 4 1/2" (16.2 x 11.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. © 2018 Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern

Mar 17–Jun 15, 2019

MoMA

Joaquín Torres-García. Construction in White and Black. 1938. Oil on paper mounted on wood, 31 3/4 × 40 1/8″ (80.7 × 102 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of David Rockefeller. Photo: Thomas Griesel. © Sucesión Joaquín Torres-García, Montevideo 2015

Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern

Oct 25, 2015–Feb 15, 2016

MoMA

Installation view of the exhibition, Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation. November 20, 2004–December 31, 2005. IN1931.4. Photograph by Thomas Griesel

Painting & Sculpture II

Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015

MoMA

Ladislav Sutnar. Prototype for Build the Town Building Blocks. 1940–43. Painted wood, large block: 1 3/4 × 2 3/4 × 2 3/4″ (4.4 × 7 × 7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Ctislav Sutnar and Radoslav Sutnar

Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000

Jul 29–Nov 5, 2012

MoMA

Hélio Oiticica. Metaesquema. 1959. Gouache on board. 19 7/8 × 26 3/4″ (50.5 × 68 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Purchased with funds given by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of Paulo Herkenhoff, 1997. © 2008 Projeto Hélio Oiticica

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions

Nov 21, 2007–Feb 25, 2008

MoMA

Odilon Redon. The Giant (Man with a Club). c. 1890. Oil on prepared paper, 25 1/2 × 20 1/4″ (64.8 × 51.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of The Ian Woodner Family Collection

Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part One

Jan 26–Apr 24, 2006

MoMA

Jacques de la Villeglé. 122 rue du Temple. 1968. Torn and collaged painted and printed paper on linen, 62 5/8″ × 6' 10 3/4″ (159.2 × 210.3 cm). Gift of Joachim Aberbach (by exchange). © 2004 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to Now

Apr 28–Aug 1, 2004

MoMA

Beatriz Milhazes. Succulent Eggplants. 1996. Synthetic polymer on canvas, 74 3/4 × 96 1/2″ (189.9 × 245.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Agnes Gund and Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest Fund. © 2003 Beatriz Milhazes

MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Mar 4–Jul 25, 2004

MoMA

Marcel Duchamp. Bicycle Wheel. New York, 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913). Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, 51 × 25 × 16 1/2ʺ (129.5 × 63.5 × 41.9 cm). The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp

ModernStarts: Things

Nov 18, 1999–Mar 14, 2000

MoMA

Diego Rivera. Two Figures. c. 1925. Colored chalk, gouache, and pencil on gray paper, 9 1/4 × 10 3/4ʺ (23.2 × 27.3 cm). Given anonymously, 1940. The Museum of Modern Art. Photograph © 1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Drawing in Latin America

Jan 29–Apr 21, 1998

MoMA

Paul Klee. Tightrope Walker (Seiltänzer) from the portfolio Art of the Present (Die Kunst der Gegenwart). 1923. Lithograph, composition: 17 1/16 × 10 5/8″ (43.4 × 27 cm); sheet: 17 15/16 × 11 1/8″ (45.6 × 28.3 cm). Publisher: Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich. Printer: Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar. Edition: 300. Given anonymously. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Three Masters of the Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Vasily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee

Jan 27–May 17, 1994

MoMA

Joan Miró. Woman and Dog in Front of the Moon (Femme et chien devant la lune). 1935, published 1936. Pochoir, composition: 20 3/16 × 17 7/8″ (51.3 × 45.4 cm); sheet: 25 11/16 × 19 5/8″ (65 × 49.8 cm). Publisher: Group Adlan, Barcelona. Printer: unknown. Edition: 60. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw (by exchange). © 2016 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Miró Prints and Books from New York Collections

Oct 17, 1993–Jan 11, 1994

MoMA

José Clemente Orozco. Barricade. 1931. Oil on canvas, 55 × 45″ (139.7 × 114.3 cm). Given anonymously. © 2016 José Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico

Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century

Jun 6–Sep 7, 1993

MoMA

Pablo Picasso. The Charnel House. Paris, 1944–45. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 6′ 6 5/8″ × 8′ 2 1/2″ (199.8 × 250.1 cm). Mrs. Sam A. Lewisohn Bequest (by exchange), and Mrs. Marya Bernard Fund in memory of her husband Dr. Bernard Bernard, and anonymous funds. © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Art of the Forties

Feb 24–Apr 30, 1991

MoMA

Still Life Into Object

Nov 22, 1990–Mar 19, 1991

MoMA

Abstractions

Nov 17, 1988–Mar 26, 1989

MoMA

Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Aug 6–Dec 8, 1987

MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

Mar 3–May 15, 1983

MoMA

Abstraction-Création, Art Non-Figuratif

Sep 20–Dec 4, 1977

MoMA

Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Oct 18, 1972–Jan 7, 1973

MoMA

Ways of Looking

Jul 28–Nov 1, 1971

MoMA

The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Jan 17–Mar 4, 1968

MoMA

Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection

Mar 17–Jun 4, 1967

MoMA

The Art of Assemblage

Oct 4–Nov 12, 1961

MoMA

Recent Acquisitions

Dec 21, 1960–Feb 5, 1961

MoMA

Recent American Acquisitions

Mar 14–Apr 30, 1957

MoMA

XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

Oct 19, 1954–Feb 6, 1955

MoMA

The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art

Mar 31–Jun 6, 1943

MoMA

Exhibition history

Explore exhibitions from The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, from MoMA’s founding in 1929 to the present. These pages are updated continually.

509: New York City, 1920s

Collection gallery

512: Circle and Square, Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Piet Mondrian

Collection gallery

Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift

Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern

Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern

Painting & Sculpture II

Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000

New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions

Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part One

Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to Now

MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

ModernStarts: Things

Drawing in Latin America

Three Masters of the Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Vasily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee

Miró Prints and Books from New York Collections

Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century

Art of the Forties

Still Life Into Object

Abstractions

Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

Abstraction-Création, Art Non-Figuratif

Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Ways of Looking

The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection

The Art of Assemblage

Recent Acquisitions

Recent American Acquisitions

XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art

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