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Edward Alden JEWELL

78 articles

EXHIBITION

Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh

PUBLISHED

10 November 1929

THE NEW MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OPENS; A Superb Showing of Work by Four Pioneers: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Seurat -- Contemporary Frenchmen

By Edward Alden JEWELL

WHAT has been heralded as an American Luxembourg in embryo, the Museum of Modern Art, opens its doors on the twelfth floor of the Heckscher Building, Fifth Avenue at Fifty-seventh Street.

New York Times • page X14 • 3,588 words

EXHIBITION

German Painting and Sculpture

PUBLISHED

13 March 1931

ART; Contemporary German Art Shown

By Edward Alden JEWELL

An exhibition of contemporary German painting and sculpture opened yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art with a showing for members. It opens to the public today and will remain until April 26.

New York Times • page 29 • 859 words

EXHIBITION

Henri Matisse

PUBLISHED

1 November 1931

ART; Lacille Bernard's Art Shown. Matisse Exhibition Ready.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The second exhibition at the recently established gallery at 144 West Thirteenth Street opened yesterday and remains until Nov. 27. In it the ...

New York Times • page 38 • 659 words

EXHIBITION

Diego Rivera

PUBLISHED

22 December 1931

ART; An Impressive Exhibition. Murals by Sert Shown. Other Openings.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The eagerly awaited Diego Rivera exhibition opens privately today at the Museum of Modern Art and to the public tomorrow. It is the first comprehensive show of this famous Mexican artist's work that we have had in New York. As such, a great ...

New York Times • page 28 • 1,340 words

EXHIBITION

Modern Architecture: International Exhibition

PUBLISHED

9 February 1932

Modern Architecture Shown.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The exhibition of modern architecture opens to museum members today and to the public tomorrow at the Museum of Modern Art in the Heckscher Building. The material, which consists of models and photographs, will remain on view until March 23.

New York Times • page 30 • 1,198 words

EXHIBITION

Murals by American Painters and Photographers

PUBLISHED

22 May 1932

PHOTOGRAPHY AND WALLS; Further Consideration of Photo-Murals at Museum of Modern Art -- Six Painters

By Edward Alden JEWELL

REVISITING the opening exhibition in the new home of the Museum of Modern Art, one discovers that the murals have been to some extent rearranged, greatly to their advantage. At first there was a disconcerting melee of photo-murals and painted panels in the galleries on the ground floor.

New York Times • page X7 • 993 words

EXHIBITION

Persian Fresco Painting

PUBLISHED

11 October 1932

Persian Frescoes to Be Shown.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

Seventeenth-century Persian frescoes, as "reconstructed" by Sarkis Katchadourian, constitute an exhibition at the Museum, of Modern Art, which will open today to members and tomorrow to the public. These paintings will be on view (in the fourth-floor galleries) until Nov. 19, after which they will begin a tour of the country, circulated by the American Institute for Persian Art and Archaeology, under whose auspices they were brought to America.

New York Times • page 24 • 1,148 words

EXHIBITION

Maurice Sterne: Retrospective Exhibition

PUBLISHED

14 February 1933

Maurice Sterne, American Artist, Opens Retrospective Show With a Reception Today.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

A large retrospective exhibition of work by Maurice Sterne, American, artist, opens at the Museum of Modern Art today with a reception and private view for members. Beginning tomorrow, the painting's, drawings and sculpture will be shown to the public, remaining until March 25.

New York Times • page 13 • 1,039 words

EXHIBITION

Color Reproductions of Mexican Frescoes by Diego Rivera

PUBLISHED

19 February 1933

A Diego Rivera Exhibition.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art will open tomorrow its new permanent architecture room, installed and decorated as an example of modern interior architecture under the supervision of Phillip Johnson, director of the museum's department of architecture.

New York Times • page N2 • 507 words

EXHIBITION

Toulouse-Lautrec Prints and Posters

PUBLISHED

26 February 1933

Museum of Modern Art Holds Its Second Show of Work by Famous French Artist, Toulouse-Lautrec.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

For the second time in its career the Museum of Modern Art brings forward work by the famous nineteenth century French artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. In February, 1931, the museum combined in an exhibition his work and that of the strongly contrasting Redon.

New York Times • page N2 • 793 words

EXHIBITION

Sculptors' Drawings

PUBLISHED

28 March 1933

Two Neu Exhibits Ready.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

Both the Whitney Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art are opening exhibitions this week. At the Whitney a, private view of the loan collection of nineteenth century American paintings from the Addison Gallery in Andover was held yesterday afternoon and beginning today the public may visit this show, which remains until April 27.

New York Times • page 17 • 307 words

EXHIBITION

The Museum Collection: Painting and Sculpture

PUBLISHED

16 April 1933

SUBJECT MATTER AND THE ABSTRACT; Debate at the Whitney Museum -- The Society of Independent Artists and G.R.D. -- The Manship Exhibition -- Other Events

By Edward Alden JEWELL

MODERN art is fundamentally just the same as the art we survey through the binoculars of historical perspective. But at the time it always seems so "different." People are ever, and justifiably, seeking more light on the baffling phenomenon of the art of their own time.

New York Times • page X8 • 2,043 words

Modern French Art Shown.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

In addition to the Edward Hopper one-man show, the Museum of Modern Art offers to the public an exhibition of modern French paint- ing and graphic art, representing gifts and loans from the collection of Mrs. Sadie A. May of Baltimore. Mrs. May is a painter as well as a collector.

New York Times • page 19 • 685 words

EXHIBITION

International Exhibition of Theatre Art

PUBLISHED

29 January 1934

HILER COMES HERE WITH LARGE SHOW; Returns From France for One-Man Exhibition Now on View at the Rodin Studios. MURAL DESIGNS INCLUDED Proposed Series for the Hotel Lafayette Seen -- Use of Tiny, Simplified Figures Noted.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

Hilaire Hiler, returned from long residence in Paris, is exhibiting his work at the Rodin Studios, 200 West Fifty-seventh Street, until Feb. 19. The hours are 2 to 6 in the afternoon, daily except Sunday. Further interest is added to this event by the recent announcement that Mr. Hiler has been commissioned to paint a series of murals at the Hotel Lafayette, tentative designs for which are included in the large one-man show.

New York Times • page 13 • 818 words

EXHIBITION

Early Museum Architecture

PUBLISHED

9 April 1934

MUSEUM EDIFICES THEME OF EXHIBIT; Architecture of Famous Art Structures Is Surveyed in an Interesting Show.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

" Early Museum Architecture" (covering a period between 1770 and 1850) is the title of a small exhibition that has been installed in rooms on the fourth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, to remain through the month. It was prepared by Henry-Russell Hitchcock Jr. in honor of the opening of the Avery Memorial, Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, Conn.

New York Times • page 15 • 398 words

EXHIBITION

Modern Housing Exhibition

PUBLISHED

15 May 1934

BLISS ART BEQUEST PUT ON EXHIBITION; Public Opening Tomorrow Will Follow Preview Today at Museum of Modern Art. CEZANNES ARE PROMINENT Picasso, Matisse, Seurat, Derain and Other Europeans, With Two Americans, Figure.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The collection bequeathed by Miss Lizzie Bliss to the Museum of Modern Art will be exhibited at the museum, for the first time in its entirety, beginning with a preview for members and their friends today. The exhibition, which will remain on all through the Summer months, opens to the public tomorrow.

New York Times • page 19 • 846 words

EXHIBITION

The War: Etchings by Otto Dix

PUBLISHED

29 July 1934

A SOLDIER-ARTIST PICTURES HELL; Commemorating Twentieth Anniversary of World War, Museum Of Modern Art Shows War Etchings by Otto Dix -- Other Events

By Edward Alden JEWELL

CONTINUING the policy of showing, at intervals, newly acquired work that has entered its permanent collection, the Museum of Modern Art will open to the public next Wednesday an exhibition composed of the war etchings by Otto Dix.

New York Times • page X7 • 1,188 words

EXHIBITION

The Making of a Museum Publication

PUBLISHED

12 September 1934

MUSEUM DEPICTS MAKING OF A BOOK; Steps in Preparation Shown, From Author's Manuscript to Printed Work.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, opened yesterday afternoon an exhibition called "The Making of a Museum Publication." The material of which it is composed has been effectively arranged in the Architecture Room on the fourth floor.

New York Times • page 21 • 368 words

EXHIBITION

George Caleb Bingham, the Missouri Artist, 1811–1879

PUBLISHED

3 February 1935

A Retrospective of Lachaise's Sculpture and Paintings by George Caleb Bingham Shown at the Museum of Modern Art

By Edward Alden JEWELL

IN approaching the sculptural work of Gaston Lachaise, whose retrospective exhibition, occupying two floors, opened to the public last Wednesday at the Museum of Modern Art, it is well to keep prominently in mind the fact that he is not, as a rule, interested -- never primarily -- in so-called "naturalistic" procedure.

New York Times • page X9 • 1,411 words

EXHIBITION

African Negro Art

PUBLISHED

19 March 1935

AFRICAN NEGRO ART ON EXHIBITION HERE; An Unusual Show Opens With Reception at Museum of Modern Art.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

Superbly installed, the exhibition of African Negro art assembled and directed by James Johnson Sweeney opened with a reception last evening at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street. Beginning today, and until May 19, this large and extremely interesting collection will be on public view.

New York Times • page 19 • 682 words

EXHIBITION

Fernand Léger: Paintings and Drawings

PUBLISHED

1 October 1935

NEW ART SEASON GETS UNDER WAY; Three Shows Are to Open This Afternoon in the Museum of Modern Art.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

This week the new art season gets fairly under way, with briskly increased activity in the local galleries and with three exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, which open with a private view from 2 to 5 this afternoon and to the public tomorrow.

New York Times • page 21 • 676 words

EXHIBITION

Contemporary Architecture in California

PUBLISHED

6 October 1935

MACHINE AGE IN DECORATIVE RHYTHMS; Two Decades of Fernand Leger's Work in the Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art -- Recent Architecture, Other Shows

By Edward Alden JEWELL

HOWEVER much we may disagree as to the specific merit of this or that canvas by Fernand Leger, we are not likely to quarrel with the scope of the artist's present one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art, which will remain through Oct. 24.

New York Times • page X9 • 1,392 words

MODERN MUSEUM OFFERS 3 SHOWS; Work of H.H. Richardson, Architect, Given in Plans, Drawings and Pictures. CASSANDRE POSTERS SEEN Contemporary Art Presented by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Assembled in Exhibition.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

With a preview yesterday afternoon the Museum of Modern Art opened three exhibitions that together fill all the available gallery space: Photographs, drawings and plans illustrating the achievements of H.H. Richardson, American architect, the fiftieth anniversary of whose death is being commemorated this year; posters by Cassandre, and a miscellaneous selection of pictures in various mediums from the collection of contemporary art recently presented to the museum by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.

New York Times • page 17 • 821 words

EXHIBITION

Cubism and Abstract Art

PUBLISHED

8 March 1936

SHOCK TROOPS IN REVIEW; Museum of Modern Art Opens a Pageant Of the Cubists and Abstractionists

By Edward Alden JEWELL

YOU an approach the gargantuan abstract show at the Museum of Modern Art (March 3-April 19) in one of many ways -- or, if you prefer and be qualified, in all of the possible ways simultaneously. Of course, if you have a closed mind, nothing will come of the visit and you might better stay at home, snug and slippered, with your comforting airtight convictions.

New York Times • page X9 • 1,715 words

EXHIBITION

Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators

PUBLISHED

3 May 1936

ARTISTS BETWEEN COVERS; Museum of Modern Art Shows Illustrations By Painters and Sculptors of Our Time

By Edward Alden JEWELL

CONFRONTED with "thousands of contemporary picture-books,'' Monroe Wheeler wisely decided to restrict items included in the current show at the Museum of Modern Art to such as involve the work of painters and sculptors who turn only now and then to projects of illustration.

New York Times • page X10 • 705 words

EXHIBITION

John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings

PUBLISHED

21 October 1936

PAINTINGS BY MARIN TO BE SHOWN TODAY; Museum of Modern Art Will Present Its Retrospective One-Man Exhibition. COLLECTION WINS PRAISE Works by Noted American Artist Include 160 Water-Colors, 21 Oils and 132 Etchings.

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, will open to the public today its retrospective one-man show of work by the distinguished American artist, John Marin. It is directed by Alfred Stieglitz, who has from the beginning been Marin's representative and loyal "persuasive advocate."

New York Times • page 25 • 731 words

EXHIBITION

Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

PUBLISHED

13 December 1936

FANTASY IN PERSPECTIVE; The Museum of Modern Art Opens Show Of Dada and Surrealism, Old and New

By Edward Alden JEWELL

OUT of nihilism came Dada. Nihilism is almost as old as the human race, but Dada, its twentieth century bundle of neurasthenic chills and fever, uttered the first tentative yell of protest against every thing on earth in the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich about two years after the World War started.

New York Times • page X11 • 1,450 words

EXHIBITION

Posters by E. McKnight Kauffer

PUBLISHED

10 February 1937

ART BY 'REALISTS' PUT ON EXHIBITION; Paintings of New York Group of Nine Are Displayed at the Whitney Museum

By Edward Alden JEWELL

An exhibition called "New York Realists" (1900-1914) opened yesterday afternoon at the Whitney Museum of American Art, to continue until March 5 The artists represented are Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, George Bellows, Everett Shinn, Glenn O. Coleman and Guy Pene duBois.

New York Times • page 20 • 1,002 words

EXHIBITION

Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa

PUBLISHED

28 April 1937

ART MUSEUM OPENS PREHISTORIC SHOW; Vast Collection Assembled by Professor Frobenius Includes Many Rock Pictures

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, opens to the public today an exhibition that conducts visitors back into the past some 200 centuries. Effectively installed on three floors are facsimiles of prehistoric rock paintings and engravings by "dawn artists," chosen from the vast collection assembled by Professor Leo Frobenius.

New York Times • page 21 • 996 words

WAR IS DEPICTED IN ART ON DISPLAY; Fifty Etchings by Dix, German Veteran of 1914, Shown at Modern Museum

By Edward Alden JEWELL

What the Museum of Modern Art is now showing could not but prove a far cry indeed from the gay carnival spirit of the American Legion, as displayed yesterday on Fifth Avenue. The Museum of Modern Art, in its temporary quarters in Rockefeller Center (14 West Fortyninth Street), has placed on view a group of war etchings by Otto

New York Times • page 30 • 763 words

EXHIBITIONS
PUBLISHED

20 October 1937

TENNESSEE NEGRO SHOWS SCULPTURE; William Edmondson Displays Small Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art INSPIRED BY CONVERSION Work Viewed as Contribution to American 'Folk' Expression--House Designs Shown Art Brevities

By Edward Alden JEWELL

It is a very modest little show that serves to introduce to the New York public America's latest "find" in the realm of sculpture, the Tennessee Negro, William Edmondson. Nine or ten of his small, quite "primitive," untutored and unpretentious figures have been installed in a recessed space at the Museum of Modern Art (temporary quarters on- the Concourse level at 14 West Forty-ninth Street).

New York Times • page 20 • 769 words

EXHIBITION

The Making of a Contemporary Film

PUBLISHED

21 December 1937

ART OF GERSHWIN PUT ON EXHIBITION; Late Composer's Only One-Man Show Reveals Talent of Considerable Promise

By Edward Alden JEWELL

It would seem odd to refer to George Gershwin's show at the Marie Harriman Gallery, 61 East Fifty-seventh Street, as a memorial exhibition, in view of the fact that it is also his first. The famous American composer, who died last July, had been painting,

New York Times • page 27 • 778 words

EXHIBITION

Subway Art

PUBLISHED

13 February 1938

DECORATING THE SUBWAY; The Museum of Modern Art Opens a Show Suggesting Some Novel Possibilities

By Edward Alden JEWELL

OBVIOUS but pertinent and inevitable questions come at once to the mind when the matter of subway art is broached-as it is broached, with samples attached, at the Museum of Modern Art.

New York Times • page 9 • 1,315 words

EXHIBITION

Alvar Aalto: Architecture and Furniture

PUBLISHED

16 March 1938

DESIGN ACADEMY OPENS ART SHOW; 96 Academicians Display Their Wares at 113th Annual Presentation Here

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The National Academy of design opened its 113th annual exhibition with a preview last evening at 9 o'clock in the galleries of the American Fine Arts Building, 215 West Fifty-seventh Street, where, beginning today, the public may examine the ninety-six entries by academicians,

New York Times • page 19 • 888 words

THE ACADEMY'S 113TH; What Happens When the Reviewer Gives All the Space Required by Prizes

By Edward Alden JEWELL

ONCE more, and for the hundred and thirteenth time, the National Academy steps out as an exhibiting organization. The list of guest artists is ten times as long as the list of prizes;

New York Times • page 9 • 2,078 words

EXHIBITION

Walker Evans: American Photographs

PUBLISHED

28 September 1938

THREE EXHIBITIONS IN MODERN MUSEUM; Prints in Color and Black-and-White Are Presented by Georges Rouault

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, in its temporary quarters at 14 West Forty-ninth Street, will open to the public today three exhibitions: Prints in color and black-and-white by the French artist Georges Rouault; American photographs by Walker Evans, and a group of approximately one hundred "useful objects" which sell in retail stores at prices under $5.

New York Times • page 22 • 584 words

EXHIBITION

The Prints of George Rouault

PUBLISHED

9 October 1938

GRAPHICS; Prints by Rouault, Daumier, Kollwitz AMERICANS ROBERT HARSHE

By Edward Alden JEWELL

THERE is something of profound appropriateness in the fact that exhibitions of graphic work by Honore Daumier, Georges Rouault and Kaethe Kollwitz are being held concurrently in New York.*

New York Times • page 173 • 1,942 words

EXHIBITION

Bauhaus: 1919–1928

PUBLISHED

7 December 1938

RECEPTION OPENS BAUHAUS DISPLAY; German Movement Has Wide Variety of Creative Work at Modern Art Museum PAINTING TO RUGS ON LIST Abstract Motion Picture Runs Continuously -- Sculpture and Typography Shown Size Suggests Louvre Installation Never Dull New Municipal Show

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, in its temporary quarters at 14 West Forty-ninth Street, opened last evening with a reception and preview, a large exhibition devoted to the German Bauhaus, which was established by Walter Gropius at Weimar in 1919.

New York Times • page 28 • 1,144 words

EXHIBITION

Picasso: Forty Years of His Art

PUBLISHED

15 November 1939

WORKS OF PICASSO PUT ON EXHIBITION; Preview and Reception Are Held at Modern Museum-- Display Closes Jan. 7 SHOW IS RETROSPECTIVE 300 Items in the Catalogue Are Representative of Varied Mediums of Artist Catalogued Items Missing Recent Works Shown

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The big Picasso exhibition, long in preparation, has opened. There was a preview reception at the Museum of Modern Art last evening, attended by members of the museum and their friends. It opens to the public today. Tonight there will be another reception, this time...

New York Times • page 20 • 964 words

EXHIBITION

Modern Masters from European and American Collections

PUBLISHED

4 February 1940

OF OLD AND CONTEMPORARY MASTERS; Museum of Modern Art Show Contrasts Paintings and Sculpture Of Italian Renaissance and Our Day-Maillol and Others

By Edward Alden JEWELL

ONCE again it becomes urgent, or at least appropriate, to speak of the Italian art that has now reached the ultimate stage of its American journey.

New York Times • page 127 • 2,072 words

EXHIBITION

Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

PUBLISHED

23 October 1940

MODERN MUSEUM OPENS ART SHOW; Anne Lindbergh Bronze Head by Charles Despiau in the New Collection PAINTINGS ALSO ON LIST Permanent Works of Galleries Are Included in Display to Stay Until First of Year

By Edward Alden JEWELL

Among the new sculpture acquisitions placed on view yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art is a sensitively modeled bronze head of Anne Lindbergh by Charles Despiau. It was made last year and has been presented to the museum by Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh.

New York Times • page 28 • 915 words

MODERN MUSEUM HAS TWO DISPLAYS; Useful Objects of American Design and Seventy-nine Color Prints Exhibited ART WEEK CONTRIBUTION Items Range From Utensils for Cooking to Raincoats and Umbrellas

By Edward Alden JEWELL

As its contribution to the National Art Week program, the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fiftythird Street, opens today two exhibitions, one composed of useful objects, American in design, that...

New York Times • page 21 • 1,064 words

MELANGE; Varied Attractions of The Week

By Edward Alden JEWELL

New York Times • page X7 • 2,479 words

Museum Exhibits Recent Acquisitions -- Europeans at Buchholz -- Vollard

By Edward Alden JEWELL

MODERN art (using the term in its now well-established historic connotation) remains still demonstrative as our season drifts toward Summer somnolence.

New York Times • page X7 • 1,692 words

EXHIBITION

New Acquisitions: Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

PUBLISHED

30 July 1941

MUSEUM DISPLAYS 'FANTASTIC' IN ART; Recent Acquisitions at Modern Galleries Illustrate Work in Dada and Surrealism

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, will place on public view today a group of recent acquisitions, this material illustrating exploits in various fields of fantastic art, Dada and Surrealism. Part of it has been placed in the regular gallery of accessions on the main floor, the rest in a gallery just to the left of the entrance on the third floor.

New York Times • page 14 • 479 words

EXHIBITION

The Wooden House in America

PUBLISHED

10 September 1941

MUSEUM PRESENTS TWO EXHIBITIONS; Domestic Architecture and the Photographs by David O. Hill Are on Display

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, opens to the public today two exhibitions both of which are to remain current for approximately a month. They have bee ninstalled in connecting galleries on the second floor. One of these exhibitions is concerned with domestic architecture -- its theme, "The Wooden House in America."

New York Times • page 21 • 813 words

EXHIBITION

George Grosz

PUBLISHED

8 October 1941

MODERN MUSEUM SHOWS GROSZ ART; One-Man Exhibition Opens at a Preview for Members of the Organization A RETROSPECTIVE DISPLAY Early Fame of Artist Crew Out of Satirical Drawings, Many Made in the World War

By Edward Alden JEWELL

A one-man show of work by George Grosz opened yesterday afternoon with a preview for members at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street. It opens to the public today and will be current through Nov. 2. This is one of the museum's traveling exhibitions and has already been seen in Honolulu, Seattle, San Francisco, Kansas City, Des Moines and Iowa City.

New York Times • page 20 • 582 words

EXHIBITIONS
PUBLISHED

19 November 1941

MODERN MUSEUM SHOWS DALI, MIRO; Two Large One-Man Offerings Under One Roof Portray Plenty of Surrealism

By Edward Alden JEWELL

Two large one-man shows opened with previews last evening at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street. They spread before us retrospectively the art of two celebrated modernists, Joan Miro and Salvador Dali. Beginning today these exhibitions will be open to the public and both are to remain current through Jan. 11.

New York Times • page 21 • 661 words

EXHIBITION

The Artists' New York

PUBLISHED

4 February 1942

EXHIBITION OF ART GIVEN BY SOLDIERS; Museum of Modern Art Puts Works of Fort Custer Artists on View Until May 10 PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ON LIST Water-Colors, Gouaches and Drawings Are Included in the Varied Collection

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art opened with a preview yesterday afternoon of an exhibition of art by soldiers at Fort Custer, Mich. The work has been placed in galleries on the main floor of the museum and may be visited by the public, beginning today.

New York Times • page 14 • 992 words

EXHIBITION

Henri Rousseau

PUBLISHED

18 March 1942

ART BY ROUSSEAU SHOWN AT MUSEUM; ' Primitive' Works by French Customs Officer on View Today at Modern Art JUNGLE THEME RECURRENT Weird Tropical Flora Hallmark of Painter -- Period From 1885 to 1910 Spanned

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The strange case of Henri Rousseau, the little French customs officer and "primitive" extraordinary, is unfurled on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, where an invitation preview took place last evening.

New York Times • page 27 • 796 words

EXHIBITION

New Acquisitions: American Drawings

PUBLISHED

25 March 1942

EXHIBITION OPENS FOR ABSTRACT ART; Most of Works in New Show at Museum of Modern Art Are Recent Accessions SOME OF THE ITEMS GIFTS Exhibit Is Intended to Make Clear Various Phases of 20th Century Development

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, that hive of exhibition industry, presents another show to the public today. Last week's offering, the Henri Rousseau retrospective, seems to be doing nicely. The new attraction, scheduled to continue for an indefinite period, is installed in adjacent galleries on the second floor.

New York Times • page 26 • 725 words

ABSTRACTION LAYS SIEGE TO US ANEW; Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Focuses Attention on Divers Aspects -- Supplementary Shows -- Other Events

By Edward Alden JEWELL

ABSTRACTION has been sneaking up on us of late; coming to represent a more and more major phase of our exhibition schedule. Those especially interested in this type of expression (a general type that in itself compasses a very considerable gamut) can put in a lot of time to advantage visiting various abstract shows about town.

New York Times • page X5 • 1,833 words

EXHIBITION

Josephine Joy: Romantic Painter

PUBLISHED

24 June 1942

MODERN MUSEUM OPENS EXHIBITIONS; ' Departure,' Triptych by Max Beckman, Among Works by Anti-Nazi Germans SHOW SELECTED POSTERS War Salvage Theme of High School Artists -- Paintings by Josephine Joy on View

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art is opening to the public today several small exhibitions, one of which consists of acquisitions of works by contemporary German artists who are "not approved by the Nazi Government."

New York Times • page 24 • 513 words

EXHIBITION

New Acquisitions: Free German Art

PUBLISHED

28 June 1942

FREE ART'; Work Nazis Reject Shown at Museum

By Edward Alden JEWELL

THE Museum of Modern Art has been acquiring some more work by German moderns who have incurred the displeasure of the Nazi regime. A group of such items, presented under the collective title, Free German Art, was placed on public view last week and will continue to be shown through Aug. 16.

New York Times • page X5 • 1,636 words

EXHIBITION

The Sculpture of John B. Flannagan

PUBLISHED

1 November 1942

TWO WHOSE MESSAGES ARE OBSCURE; The Museum of Modern Art Puts on Retrospective Exhibitions Of the Work of Tchelitchew and the Late John Flannagan

By Edward Alden JEWELL

TWO synchronously arranged one-man shows at the Museum of Modert Art, which opened last week, permit us to survey, retrospectively, the achievement of a painter and of a sculptor. It is achievement that, in the instance of Pavel Tchelitchew, ranges from 1925 to the present year, and that, with respect to John B. Flannagan, represents all that there will be, for the American sculptor died, a suicide, last January.

New York Times • page X9 • 2,050 words

EXHIBITION

Brazil Builds

PUBLISHED

17 January 1943

Brazil Builds Anew -- Other Shows

By Edward Alden JEWELL

THE Museum of Modern Art is giving us a highly profitable glimpse of Brazil's modern building campaign. Made up of photographs and models, the architecture show that opened there last week is compact and trimly installed.

New York Times • page X9 • 721 words

EXHIBITION

Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists

PUBLISHED

10 February 1943

'AMERICANS 1943' ART SHOW SUBJECT; Realists and Magic Realists Represented in Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, opened one of the season's major exhibitions with a preview yesterday. It is called "Americans 1943: Realists and Magic Realists" and will continue until March 21.

New York Times • page 22 • 650 words

SHOWS MODERN ART OF LATIN AMERICA; Museum Places on View 224 New Acquisitions Selected by Lincoln Kirstein

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, has built up what it considers the most important collection of Latin-American art in the world. In an exhibition that opened with a preview yesterday, filling all of the galleries on the second floor, 224 new acquisitions in this field were placed on view for the first time here.

New York Times • page 16 • 500 words

EXHIBITION

Action Photography

PUBLISHED

18 August 1943

DISPLAY OF PHOTOS OPENS HERE TODAY; Action Pictures From 1837 to Present Day to Be Seen at Museum of Modern Art

By Edward Alden JEWELL

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, has added to its extensive summer program a new exhibition. It is called "Action Photography" and installed in one of the main floor galleries, opens to the public today, scheduled to remain through Sept. 19.

New York Times • page 15 • 442 words

EXHIBITION

Alexander Calder

PUBLISHED

29 September 1943

CALDER SCULPTURE ON DISPLAY TODAY; Retrospective Show of Work by 'No. 1 Playboy of Art' at the Modern Museum CREATIONS FROM WIRE Mobiles and Stabiles Called 3-Dimensional Abstracts -Some Wood Carvings

By Edward Alden JEWELL

A retrospective exhibition of sculpture by Alexander Calder opened with a members' preview yesterday afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street. The public opening is today, and the exhibition will run until Nov. 28.

New York Times • page 16 • 610 words

EXHIBITION

Romantic Painting in America

PUBLISHED

17 November 1943

ROMANTIC PAINTING IN AMERICA SHOWN; Museum of Modern Art Opens Major Exhibition of Season to Run Until Feb. 6

By Edward Alden JEWELL

With an invitation preview last evening, the Museum of Modern Art opened its major show of the present season, "Romantic Painting in America." The large exhibition, retrospective and contemporary in range, occupies the entire second floor of the museum.

New York Times • page 22 • 659 words

EXHIBITION

Portraits

PUBLISHED

21 November 1943

A ROMANTIC SURVEY; Museum of Modern Art Opens Its Show Of a Phase of Our Art -- Other Events In the Round-Up of Our Romantics

By Edward Alden JEWELL

WEBSTER proves of no phenomenal assistance -- that is, does not provide us with any too specific definition covering the newest thesis at the Museum of Modern Art, where a large exhibition called "Romantic Painting in America" got under way last week.

New York Times • page X7 • 1,686 words

EXHIBITION

Modern Cuban Painters

PUBLISHED

17 March 1944

CUBAN PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY TODAY; Outstanding Exhibition to Be Seen at Museum of Modern Art Through May 7

By Edward Alden JEWELL

An exhibition called Modern Cuban Painters opened with a members' preview yesterday afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street. It opens to the public today, and will continue through May 7. Thereafter the work is to be sent on tour by the museum's Department of Circulating Exhibitions.

New York Times • page 15 • 703 words

ART IN PROGRESS' PREVIEWED HERE; Museum of Modern Art Offers its 15th Anniversary Show -- To Run Through Summer

By Edward Alden JEWELL

With a preview for members and their guests, the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, last night opened its fifteenth anniversary exhibition, called "Art in Progress." The exhibition, filling all of the galleries, opens to the public today and will run through the summer.

New York Times • page 15 • 754 words

EXHIBITION

American Battle Painting 1776–1918

PUBLISHED

27 September 1944

PAINTINGS OF WAR GO ON VIEW TODAY; American Battle Art, 1776 to 1918, on Display at Modern Museum Until Nov. 12

By Edward Alden JEWELL

An exhibition called "American Battle Painting: 1776-1918" opened with a private view yesterday afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street. It opens to the public today and will continue through Nov. 12.

New York Times • page 29 • 566 words

EXHIBITION

Are Clothes Modern?

PUBLISHED

3 December 1944

ART: SO MANY THINGS; Clothes, Ballet, a Dance-Mime-Painter, Marin, Landscape, Genre, Still-Life

By Edward Alden JEWELL

New York Times • page X8 • 2,000 words

EXHIBITION

Recent Acquisitions

PUBLISHED

25 February 1945

ART: THE WEEK IN REVIEW; Among Recent Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art

By Edward Alden JEWELL

LAST week the Museum of Modern Art opened two small exhibitions. One of these is a group of French photographs, from Daguerre to Atget, organized by Therese Bonney and Nancy Newhall; the other ...

New York Times • page X8 • 1,687 words

EXHIBITION

Tomorrow's Small House: Models and Plans

PUBLISHED

3 June 1945

LOOKING FORWARD AT HOUSING; "Tomorrow's Small House," at the Museum of Modern Art

By Edward Alden JEWELL

JUST as we have learned, the hard way, that in time of peace it is an act of prudence to prepare for, or forestall, war, so the process may be reversed, and we find it advantageous in time of war to plan for the peace that will surely come.

New York Times • page X2 • 1,140 words

EXHIBITION

The Museum Collection of Photographs

PUBLISHED

24 June 1945

MODERNISM; Well Installed

By Edward Alden JEWELL

IN 1942 the Museum of Modern Art published a catalogue of its permanent collection, which then contained just short of 700 items.

New York Times • page 26 • 737 words

EXHIBITION

Stuart Davis

PUBLISHED

18 November 1945

AN ANNUAL, HISTORY, A MELANGE; An Award Winner in the Second "Portrait of America"

By Edward Alden JEWELL

INSTALLED in the Mezzanine Galleries of the International Building, Rockefeller Center, the second annual "Portrait of America" exhibition, conducted by Pepsi-Cola Company under the auspices of Artists for Victory, Inc., opened last week and will be current through Dec. 15.

New York Times • page 53 • 1,972 words

ART FROM OCEANIA; Examples of "Arts of the South Seas" at the Museum of Modern Art

By Edward Alden JEWELL

WE have become fairly familiar, through the last couple of decades, with African Negro art.

New York Times • page X6 • 1,743 words

EXHIBITION

New Dormitories for Smith College

PUBLISHED

6 February 1946

MODERN MUSEUM OPENS 4 DISPLAYS; Three New Exhibitions Offer Architectural Phases, Other Has Recent Acquisitions

By Edward Alden JEWELL

Yesterday was one of those peaceful, somnolent days at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street. Only four previews were scheduled, these topped off by an announced lecture in the museum's auditorium for last evening: the lecturer, Alvar Aalto; ...

New York Times • page 31 • 651 words

EXHIBITION

Georgia O'Keeffe

PUBLISHED

9 June 1946

THE SEASON VIEWED IN RETROSPECT; Bulk and Scope

By Edward Alden JEWELL

AS you will see, noting the report across the page, the 1945-46 art season is still going pretty strong. It be comes increasingly difficult to determine just where an old season ends and a new one begins. Galleries remain active much later ...

New York Times • page 51 • 1,357 words

EXHIBITION

Paintings from New York Private Collections

PUBLISHED

7 July 1946

WHAT OUR COLLECTORS LIKE BEST; Collectors and Taste

By Edward Alden JEWELL

AS its summer show the Museum of Modern Art has as sembled an exhibition that turns out to be pleasantly exigent From seven New York private collections it has borrowed, in all fifty-nine pictures, asking the lenders to select themselves the particular works that have given ...

New York Times • page 42 • 868 words

EXHIBITION

Large-Scale Modern Paintings

PUBLISHED

6 April 1947

BY CONTEMPORARIES; Big Pictures at Museum of Modern Art -- The Abstract Annual -- Juan Gris

By Edward Alden JEWELL

WE have had shows restricted to small paintings, but save for exhibitions of actual murals, I do not recall one, prior to last week's opening at the Museum of Modern Art, that was specifically confined to paintings the smallest of which must be "over six feet long."

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MODERN ART OPENS DRAWINGS DISPLAY; Museum Offers Large, Varied Exhibition of Work From Its Permanent Collection

By Edward Alden JEWELL

Between 200 and 300 drawings from its permanent collection were shown by the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street, at a preview for members held yesterday afternoon. The admirable and attractively arranged exhibition opens to the public today, scheduled to remain through next month.

New York Times • page 29 • 630 words

EXHIBITION

Mies van der Rohe

PUBLISHED

21 September 1947

THE SEASON HITS ITS STRIDE; Work by British Artists At the Metropolitan -- Other Local Events

By Edward Alden JEWELL

WE'RE off now, and no mistaking the fact, on the new exhibition season in New York. Last week's list stretched from here to there down our mid-September office roster.

New York Times • page X8 • 1,350 words

EXHIBITIONS
PUBLISHED

1 October 1947

ART BY BEN SHAHN SHOWN AT GALLERY; Display of Paintings by Artist, Much in 'Social Commentary' Class, Opens at Museum

By Edward Alden JEWELL

A retrospective exhibition of work by the widely known American artist, Ben Shahn, opened with a preview last evening at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fifty-third Street. It will open today to the public and continue through Jan. 4.

New York Times • page 27 • 564 words