Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
♂ American, 1902–1981
Alfred worked at MoMA from about 1929 to 1968 as Curator, Arranger, Installer and Competition Judge , and he was head of The Museum of Modern Art from 1929–1943 , head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1929–1940 , head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1940–1943 and head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1947–1967 .
53 exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh
7 November to 7 December 1929
Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Georges-Pierre Seurat, among others, were involved.
Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans
3 December 1930 to 20 January 1931
Charles Sheeler, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., among others, were involved.
German Painting and Sculpture
12 March to 22 April 1931
Paul Klee, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Beckmann, among others, were involved.
3–27 October 1933
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
30 October to 8 December 1933
Edward Hopper and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. were involved.
Vincent van Gogh
4 November 1935 to 5 January 1936
Vincent van Gogh, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Camille Pissarro were involved.
Cubism and Abstract Art
2 March to 19 April 1936
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
7 December 1936 to 17 January 1937
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.
Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa
28 April to 30 May 1937
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller and Douglas C. Fox were involved.
Masters of Popular Painting: Modern Primitives of Europe and America
27 April to 24 July 1938
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller, Henri Rousseau and John Kane, among others, were involved.
Three Centuries of American Art
24 May to 31 July 1938
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
Picasso: Forty Years of His Art
15 November 1939 to 7 January 1940
Pablo Picasso and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. were involved.
Italian Masters
26 January to 7 April 1940
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Clarence Kennedy, Sandro Botticelli and Donatello, among others, were involved.
Organic Design in Home Furnishings
24 September to 9 November 1941
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Marcel Breuer, Edward Durell Stone and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., among others, were involved.
Image of Freedom
29 October 1941 to 1 February 1942
Charles Sheeler, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ansel Adams and Monroe Wheeler, among others, were involved.
Pictures for Children
10 December 1941 to 25 January 1942
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Victor D'Amico, Elizabeth Olds and Mervin Jules, among others, were involved.
United Hemisphere Poster Competition
21 October to 24 November 1942
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Monroe Wheeler, René d'Harnoncourt and Eliot Noyes, among others, were involved.
Joe Milone's Shoe Shine Stand
22 December 1942 to 10 January 1943
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Giovanni Indelicato were involved.
The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
20 June 1945 to 13 February 1946
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
2 July 1946 to 12 September 1954
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
13 January to 21 March 1948
Georges Braque, André Derain, Juan Gris and George Grosz, among others, were involved.
The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club
15 March to 17 April 1949
Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Morris Graves, among others, were involved.
Master Prints from the Museum Collection
10 May to 10 July 1949
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Twentieth Century Italian Art
28 June to 18 September 1949
Giorgio de Chirico, Amedeo Modigliani, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Umberto Boccioni, among others, were involved.
Polio Poster Competition
31 October to 20 November 1949
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.
Henri Matisse
13 November 1951 to 13 January 1952
Henri Matisse and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. were involved.
Masterworks Acquired through the Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
29 January to 23 March 1952
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.
De Stijl
16 December 1952 to 15 February 1953
Piet Mondrian, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Josef Albers, among others, were involved.
Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
23 June to 4 October 1953
Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.
XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Good Design: 5th Anniversary
8 February to 20 March 1955
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Philip Johnson, Charles Eames and René d'Harnoncourt, among others, were involved.
5 March to 24 April 1955
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.
Picasso: 12 Masterworks
15 March to 17 April 1955
Pablo Picasso and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. were involved.
Paintings from Private Collections
31 May to 7 September 1955
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions
30 November 1955 to 22 February 1956
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger and Max Beckmann, among others, were involved.
Recent European Acquisitions
28 November 1956 to 20 January 1957
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Dubuffet and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, among others, were involved.
Picasso: 75th Anniversary
4 May to 8 September 1957
Pablo Picasso, William S. Lieberman and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. were involved.
Recent Acquisitions
13 November 1957 to 5 January 1958
Paul Klee, Ben Shahn, Giorgio de Chirico and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.
Works of Art: Given or Promised
8 October to 9 November 1958
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions
3 December 1959 to 31 January 1960
Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Ben Shahn and Alberto Giacometti, among others, were involved.
Started 20 April 1960
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
11 October 1960 to 2 January 1961
Fernand Léger and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. were involved.
3 December 1960 to 8 January 1961
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.
18 August 1961 to 20 April 1962
Robert Motherwell, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Sam Francis and Mark Rothko, among others, were involved.
Modern Allegories
19 August 1961 to 30 January 1962
Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall and Giorgio de Chirico, among others, were involved.
Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure
23 May to 26 August 1962
William S. Lieberman, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dorothy C. Miller and Larry Rivers, among others, were involved.
André Derain in the Museum Collection
28 June to 30 September 1963
André Derain and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Seven American Paintings
5 November 1964 to 15 February 1965
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Morris Louis, Jules Olitski and Larry Poons, among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
16 February to 25 April 1965
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.
Sculpture in Glass
16 November 1965 to 2 January 1966
Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., among others, were involved.
Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
6 April to 12 June 1966
André Derain, George Grosz, Stuart Davis and Roy Lichtenstein, among others, were involved.
Guernica: Studies and Postscripts
2 June 1967 to 13 February 1968
Pablo Picasso, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Grace B. Stevens were involved.