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Deborah Wye

♀  American

Deborah worked at MoMA from about 1980 to 1988 as Curator , and she was head of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books from 1996–2010 .

Seven exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition The Painter and the Printer: Robert Motherwell's Graphics

30 October to 16 December 1980

Robert Motherwell, Deborah Wye, Sigizmund Valishevskii (Zigmund Waliszewsky) and Stephanie Terenzio were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Louise Bourgeois

3 November 1982 to 8 February 1983

Alicia Legg, Louise Bourgeois and Deborah Wye were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

18 December 1985 to 20 May 1986

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Alexander Calder and Jim Dine, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Bill Jensen/First Etchings

16 January to 4 March 1986

Deborah Wye and Bill Jensen were involved.

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American Prints, 1960–1985

22 May to 26 July 1987

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.

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Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

6 August to 8 December 1987

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Committed to Print

31 January to 19 April 1988

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.