Exhibition history
Exhibitions from our founding in 1929 to the present are available online. These pages are updated continually.
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Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern
March 17–
June 15, 2019 The Museum of Modern Art
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American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe
August 17, 2013–
January 26, 2014 The Museum of Modern Art
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Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983
October 19, 2011–
February 12, 2012 The Museum of Modern Art
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Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
March 11–
September 7, 2009 The Museum of Modern Art
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Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities
July 30–
November 10, 2008 The Museum of Modern Art
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Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two
May 10–
October 2, 2006 The Museum of Modern Art
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Sight Gags: Grotesque, Caricature and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawings
January 21–
May 5, 1999 The Museum of Modern Art
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Painters for the Theater
July 14–
November 1, 1989 The Museum of Modern Art
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American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
December 18, 1985–
May 20, 1986 The Museum of Modern Art
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Words and Pictures
August 20–
October 6, 1981 The Museum of Modern Art
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A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
April 28–
July 4, 1978 The Museum of Modern Art
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American Prints: 1913–1963
December 3, 1974–
March 3, 1975 The Museum of Modern Art
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Painters for the Theatre: An Invitation to the Theatre Arts Collection
November 19, 1973–
January 13, 1974 The Museum of Modern Art
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American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection
December 24, 1969–
March 1, 1970 The Museum of Modern Art
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Manhattan Observed
March 22–
July 1, 1968 The Museum of Modern Art
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Portraits from the Museum Collection
May 4–
September 18, 1960 The Museum of Modern Art
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American Acquisitions: Recent Additions of Prints to the Museum Collection
April 2–
May 31, 1959 The Museum of Modern Art
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American Prints of the 20th Century
September 8–
November 28, 1954 The Museum of Modern Art
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American Paintings from the Museum Collection
December 23, 1948–
March 13, 1949 The Museum of Modern Art
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Art in Progress: 15th Anniversary Exhibitions: Dance and Theatre Design
May 24–
September 17, 1944 The Museum of Modern Art
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Modern Drawings
February 16–
May 10, 1944 The Museum of Modern Art
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Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists
February 10–
March 21, 1943 The Museum of Modern Art
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Twentieth Century Portraits
December 9, 1942–
January 24, 1943 The Museum of Modern Art
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Four American Traveling Exhibitions
April 3–
28, 1940 The Museum of Modern Art
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Art in Our Time: 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Painting, Sculpture, Prints
May 10–
September 30, 1939 The Museum of Modern Art
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Three Centuries of American Art
May 24–
July 31, 1938 The Museum of Modern Art